252 MAINE AGRICULTURAI, EXPERIMENT STATION. I909. 



3. Platyura inops Coquillett. 

 1901. inops Coquillett. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Bui. 23, 594. 



Male and female. Length 4.5 mm. Yellow, an ocella dot 

 and apices of abdominal segments black, most extended on the 

 posterior segments, tarsi yellowish brown ; antennae subcylin- 

 drical, the third joint noticeably longer than broad; wings 

 hyaline, a grayish brown spot before apex of R4+5; sub- 

 costal vein extending a short distance beyond base of radial 

 sector, subcostal crossvein at about 1-6 of distance from the 

 humeral to apex of subcostal vein, R2+3 ending in the costa at 

 about 1-3 of distance from apex of Ri to apex of R4+5, costa 

 extending nearly midway between apices of Ri+s and Mi, 

 cubitus forking beyond base of the radial sector. Delaware 

 Water Gap, New Jersey. 



One of each sex from Brattleboro, Vermont, taken in July 

 by Mr. C. W. Johnson, and a single specimen from Ithaca, 

 N. Y., have the coalesced part of the media much shorter than 

 the petiole; fore claws with 2 basal teeth each, one of the teeth 

 slender and about 1-3 as long as the claw; the fore metatarsus 

 1.5 times as long as its tibia; the hypopygium as figured 

 (fig. lOl). 



4. Platyura sctigcr n. sp. 

 Male. Length 5^ mm. Head black, subopaque, palpi and 

 mouth parts, and whole of the antennze fuscous; intermediate 

 antennal joints about as long as broad. Thorax subopaque, 

 mesonotum with three wide confluent black stripes (in one 

 specimen not confluent), the humeri, lateral stripe to base of 

 wings, and margin of scutellum yellow, the other parts black; 

 the setae on the thorax arranged in rows, a slender median row, 

 one on each side of this on the division between the dark stripes, 

 and a wider lateral row of rather more conspicuous setae reach- 

 ing the base of the wings. Scutellar setae as strong as those 

 at the base of the wing. Abdomen dusky yellowish, the dorsum 

 of the first segment, basal half of the second, the immediate 

 bases of the remaining segments, the whole of the prominent 

 hypopygium (fig. 103), under side of trochanters, and setae of 

 abdomen, black. Legs including the coxae, yellow ; tarsi appear 

 dusky owing to the black setulas. Tibial setae less than half as 



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