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with brownish hair and tomentum, with narrow annuli of white tomentum, 

 at tip of tibiae and metatarsi, hind metatarsi ciliated; tarsi stout. Length 

 2.2 mm.; of wings, 2.2 mm. 



Three specimens, Havana, Cuba. Col. Nat. Museum. 



Psychoda slossonl n. sp. J^. — Wings rather narrow, the upper surface 

 clothed for the most part with rather long, black hair, with one or two 

 poorly differentiated bands or spots of whitish hair; costa at the base with 

 a large tuft of dense, long, black hair, beyond the tuft the hair becomes 

 gradually shorter and somewhat intermixed with whitish; on the posterior 

 margin the hair is dense and long; black, except between the termination 

 of the sixth and seventh veins, and at the tip, where it is white. Body 

 black, not shining; abdomen and scutellum clothed with long white hair, 

 the dorsum of the thorax apparently with black and white hair; antennae 

 hot longer than twice the greatest diameter of the head, slender, light 

 yellow; the basal joints dilated, black, and densely clothed with black 

 hair; the following joints elongate, slender, with a row of about six slen- 

 der, successively longer, erect, straight, fine bristles on the upper margin. 

 Legs yellowish, the tarsi blackish; tibiae and tarsi, or at least the two an- 

 terior pairs, ciliate, with long black hair; that on the tibiae on both sides 

 distally; that on the tarsi chiefly on the basal joint and on the posterior 

 and dorsal margin. Length 2.2 mm.; of wings, 2.75 mm. 



A single male specimen from Watkins Glen, N. Y. Mrs. A. 

 T. Slosson. , 



A female specimen collected with this male differs so much 

 that I at first thought it represented a distinct species, and it is 

 not at all unlikely that it does. The hair on the wings is not as 

 long; there are no white spots at the tips of the longitudinal 

 veins; the hair of the body is white throughout; the basal joints 

 of the antennae are but little dilated and have white hair; the legs 

 are wanting. 



Psychoda alternata Say. 



This species is easily recognizable. I have specimens from 

 Connecticut, Michigan, Dakota, Tennessee and Kansas. I am 

 not sure but that specimens from the West Indies are of the same 

 species. 



I HAVE lately discovered that Meromacrus Rondani (Esam. di. var. sp. 

 d'Ins. Bras. p. 10, 1848) is quite identical with Pteroptila Loew (1885). 

 There is no excuse, either for the proposal of the name by Loew, or the 

 failure to recognize the identity by myself, sooner. Our species should 

 be known as Meromacrus in the future. — S. W. Williston, Lawrence, 

 Kans. 



