110 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL AlUSEUM. vol.39. 



the male is gently rounded at the sides, not somewhat angled, as in 

 the European forms. 



Type-locality. — Wakasa, Japan. Three females and two males 

 collected by Mr. T. Fukai. A paratype female from Yokohama, 

 Japan, collected "on flowers in hedges and gardens," June 20, 1906, 

 by Mr. Brunetti. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13328, U.S.N.M. 



F. W. Konow* considers spinarum Fabricius to be a synonym of 

 colibri Christ. Inasmuch as no proof is available and spinarum 

 Fabricius is a well-known name, it is retained for the present. 



ATHALIA JAPONICA (Klug). 



A male collected in Japan by Mr. A. Koebele differs from King's 

 description of the female in pale clypeus, labrum, mandibles, and 

 scape. There is a small circular depression in front of the anterior 

 ocellus; middle fovea deep, nearly circular; third antennal joint 

 nearly as long as four and five combined; hypopygidium broad, 

 gently round at the apex. 



F. W. Konow^ runs japonica in with the species which have the 

 tibiae and tarsi black. In this he is wrong — the original description 

 says: ''Die Schienen und Fussglieder sind schwarzlich, erstere in der 

 Mitte, letztere in ihrem Nasprunge gelblich." 



ATHALIA LUGENS (Klug), INFUMATA (Marlatt). 



Phyllotoma infumata Marlatt, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 21, 1898, p. 494. 



F. W. Konow'' places Phyllotoma infumata Marlatt as a synonym 

 of Atlialia lugens (Klug). A comparison of the types of infumata with 

 specimens of this species from Europe shows racial differences. They 

 may be separated by the following table: 



Labrum and palpi dark reddish-brown; tibiae reddish-yellow except at the apex; 

 wings brownish hyaline, venation brown; hypopygidium more sharply narrowed 

 apically lugens lugens (Klug). 



Labrum and palpi black ; tibiae black, at least the hind tibise (these first two sets of char- 

 acters hold for the females, but the males vary, the color of the wings in the males is, 

 however, apparently constant); wings much darker, venation black; hypopygidium 

 gradually narrowing apically and tapering its entire length. 



lugens infumata (Marlatt.). 



There are three females of the Japanese race from Yokohama, 

 Japan, collected on flowers in hedges and gardens June 20 and July 

 25, 1906, by Mr. Brunetti in the collections of the National Museum. 

 Mr. Fukai has sent the museum a female from Wakasa, Japan. 



« Genera Insectorum, fas. 29, 1906, p. 93, and his table of 1908. 

 b Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersburg, vol. 13 (1), 1908, p. 12. 

 c Genera Insectorum, fas. 29, 1906, p. 94. 



