284 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. Itjl I . 



In one male (from Medellin) the abdomen is yellow, with 

 large black spot on each side of the segments, except the sixth ; 

 hypopygiiim is also black. In one female ( from (Orizaba ) the 

 median spot of mesonotum is absent and the fascia of the wing 

 is obsolete. 



9. Lcia Xi'iiitJieinii Lehmann. 

 Ins. Spec, in agro Haml). captce. 39. 1822. 

 Male and female. Length 4.5 mm. Head dusky yellow, face 

 and palpi pale yellow. 3 basal joints and under side of joints 

 4 and 5 reddish yellow. Thorax yellow, with 3 stripes on mes- 

 onotum of which the middle one is geminate, the center of the 

 scutellum, the middle of the metanotum. and posterior margin 

 of metapleural lobes, brownish black; hairs pale; setae brown- 

 ish. Tergites brown, bases of all but the first broadly yellow, 

 the brown produced forward on the middle line; venter and 

 hairs yellow ; hypo})ygium yellow, the ventral appendages black 

 (Fig. 164). Coxffi and legs yellow, apices of trochanters, of 

 hind femora, black, tarsi infuscated ; spurs dusky yellow. 

 Wings hyaline with brown markings as figured (Fig. 198). 

 Halteres yellow. Maine; N. Y. ; Wis., (W.M.W.); Oregon 

 and Washington (J.AI.A.); "Canada; N. H." 



10. Lcia striata Williston. 

 Kansas Univ. Quart. II. 60, 1893. ( NeoglajdiyropteraV 

 Male. Length 5 mm. Head yellow, the occiput somewhat 

 brownish; antenna? brown, the basal joints yellow. Thorax 

 yellow; mesonotum with 4 brown stripes, the median ones 

 narrower, narrowed posteriorly and separated by a slender line, 

 the lateral ones abbreviated in front ; metanotum brown ; bris- 

 tles of the mesonctum well developed, as are also those of the 

 trichostical row. Abdomen black, the anterior ])art of the 

 segments yellow or brown. Legs yellow. ti]i of the hind femora 

 and tib'i^e ard allthe tarsi brown; front metatarsi as long as 

 the tWnx. Wings yellowish hyaline ; an irregular brown band 

 across the outer ]>art, and brown s])ots on the crossvein and 

 on Cu:;; <"n;il vein incomplete; the subcosta terminates about 

 opposite the furcation of the cul)itus. and the subcostal crossvein 

 is situated beyond its middle; the R-M crossvein It^iger than 

 the last section of Ri. "Washington." 



