92 KING AID [35 2 ] 



SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING SPECIES OF PRISTIPHORA. 

 Females. 



Body black with yellow markings on pronotum and tegulae. 



Dorsulum of abdomen black except at tip bucoda sp. nov. 



Dorsulum of abdomen principally yellow <?e<5<?// Marlatt. 



Body entirely black. 



Stigma narrow and elongate anaka sp. nov. 



Stigma orbicular circularis sp. nov. 



Stigma normal, regularly rounded beneath ortinga sp. nov. 



Males. 

 Body black with white trochanters and tibiae lena sp. nov. 



EUURA INSULARIS sp. nov. 



Female: Length 4.5 to 5 mm.; slender, shining; clypeus very 

 deeply and narrowly emarginate ; ridges about ocellar area distinctly 

 raised, but rounded; frontal crest broad, rounded, with a narrow 

 notch in the middle ; antennal fovea small, circular, moderately exca- 

 vated; antenna? short, slender, third to fifth joints subequal; outer 

 veins of discal cells in hind wings interstitial ; stigma rounded at base, 

 tapering to an acute point; tarsal claws slender, subequal; sheath 

 stout at base, rather sharply rounded at apex. Color black ; labrum, 

 base of mandibles, tips of coxae, trochanters, tips of femora, tibiae ex- 

 cept apices of posterior pair, and anterior and middle tarsi, testaceous. 



Male : Length 4.0 ; resembles female in general structural charac- 

 ters; antenna? longer, stouter at base, tapering sharply; procidentia 

 well developed, projecting, rounded at the apex ; hypopygium sharply 

 rounded at tip. Color black; flagellum of antennae, labrum, tip of 

 clypeus, base of mandibles, spot beneath eyes extending upwards on 

 inner orbits, testaceous ; legs colored as in the female. 



Twelve females and two males, Popof Island, July 9-15. 



Type no. 5301, U. S. National Museum. 



Swept from willow bushes. 



Allied to Euura salicicola Smith, but in that species the ridges 

 about the ocellar area are obsolete, the frontal crest is broad and flat 

 and the sheath is broadly rounded at the apex. In both sexes of 

 Euura salicicola the antennae are more or less pallid, while in Euura 

 insularis this is true only of the males. 



PONTANIA TUNDRA sp. nov. 



Female: Length 3.5 mm.; rather slender; clypeus deeply and 

 broadly emarginate, the lobes small and rounded; lateral walls of 



