LEIA. 97 



some species the upper branch of the 5th vein is slightly dis- 

 connected at the base, and the prongs of both the 4th and 5th 

 veins may be nearly parallel or distinctly divergent according to 

 the species. 



Range. Europe, North Africa, North and South America, "West 

 Indies, India, and Sumatra. 



Life-history. The larvae live in fungi, but beyond this nothing 

 appears to be known. 



" The name Leia replaces Neoylapliyroptera because Curtis 

 designated L. fasciatipennis, Meigen, as the type and because 

 Rondani, the first reviser of the genus, defines it as above. It 

 appears that the name Leja was used by Dejean for a genus of 

 Coleoptera. Scu'dder dates it 1821 and credits it to Megerle. 

 Lacordaire states that it was used by Dejean in his first catalogue 

 which, according to Hagen, appeared in 1802. As this catalogue 

 is not accessible to me I am unable to decide the question of 

 synonymy ; the spelling being different it may be justifiable to 

 use the name Leia even should it be antedated by Leja ; if not, it 

 must be replaced by Lejomya, Rondani." * 



Table of Species. 



1. Yellow species, with or without markings. 2. 

 Shining black species ; wing-tip infus- 



cated 6. 



2. Thorax with three black stripes 3. 



Thorax never striped 4. 



3. Wing with three black spots winthemi, Lehm., p. 97. 



Wing with only one black spot flavobrunnea, sp. n., p. 99. 



4. Thorax with a very large black spot 



towards each side ; wing with an 



arcuate blackish mark towards the tip . arcuata, sp. n., p. 99. 

 Thorax without such spots 5. 



5. Thorax wholly yellow; wing with a 



blackish transverse streak near tip .... bicolor, sp. n., p. 100. 

 Thorax shining black except on anterior 

 margin ; wing with a very narrow arc- 

 shaped blackish streak near tip insignis, sp. n., p. 101. 



6. Front coxae dark, hind femora brownish ; 



proboscis not spatulate nigra, sp. n., p. 101. 



Front coxse and hind femora pale yellow ; 

 proboscis spatulate spathulata, sp. n., p. 101. 



49. Leia winthemi, Lehm. (PI. II, fig. 2.) 



Leia winthemi. Lehmann, Ins. spec, in agro Hamb. captee, p. 39 



(1822). 

 Glaphyroptera winthemi, Winnertz. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xiii, 



p. 789 (1863). 



* The above quotation is from Johannsen (Gen. Ins., Fasc. 93, p. 76, 1909), 

 and explains the question of synonymy concisely; it is therefore quoted 

 verbatim. 



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