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Superior appendages not as loug- as basal joint of inferior; 2 jointed; 

 joint 1 short ; joint 2 (apering to an acute point. 



Habitat: Olympia, Washington. June 24 to July 1, 1897. 

 Many specimens were collected on a wall shaded by hop 

 vines. 

 Psycho 'a schizura, n sp. 



9 Bod,v whitish, clothed with gray hair on the thorax and silvery 

 white on the abdomen. Legs whitish, becoming darker basally, 

 clothed with white hairs and scales. Wing a little more than twice 

 as long as broad, rather acutely pointed at the apex ; hair upon the 

 veins white and black, distributed in alternate patches, so as to give 

 the surface of the wings a mottled appearance ; well marked patches 

 of blnck at the apices of the veius : fringe on posterior margin gray : 

 length of wing 2.7 ram- Antennae not as long as the width of wing, 

 15 jointed; basal joints not much larger than succeeding ones: 

 joints 3 15 globular, separated by slender pedicles, which are about 

 as long as the length of the nodes, each joint beiring a verticillate 

 tuft of white hail'. Ventral plate V shaped ; ovipositor short. 



(5^ S.naller than $. Inferior appendages extremely long, 3-jointed : 

 joint 1 stout, cylindrical ; joint 2 almost twice as long as 1, enlarged 

 atthebaseand tapering to the apex; joints minute, clavate. Su 

 perior appendages as long as first joint of inferior, two jointed, 

 tapering to an acute point. 



Habitat: Seattle, Wash., August 13 to September 1, 1898. 

 On windows. 

 Pericoma tridactila, n. sp. 



V Body light brown, densely clothed with gray haii-. Wings 

 ovate, one and one half times as long as broad, apex moderately 

 acute, clothed over the whole surface with gray h^ir, except an 

 irregular baud of white across the middle; fringe with basal third 

 gray, remainder white, as long as the width of three cells; length 

 of wing 2.5 mm. Legs light brown, clothed with gray hair and 

 scales. Atteunas as long as the width of the wing, 16-jointed, with 

 dense whorls of gray hair upon the nodes; joint 1-2 not lai'ger than 

 suf'ceeding joints ; joints 3 15 globular, separated by slender pedicles, 

 which are slightly longer than the leuarth of the nodes; joints 14-lfi 

 minutely, closely apposed. Ventral plate longer than broad, sides 

 not eraarginate, narrowing strongly towards tlie apex, which is 

 bilobate. 



r^ Genitalia conspicuous, clothed with gray hairs Inferior ap- 

 pendages elongate, 2-jointed; bis vlji)ints stout, cj'lindricil, fused in 

 the median line; second joint as long as first, straight, cylindrical, 

 tapei'ing to a rounded apex, and bearing at the tip three divergent, 

 slender clavate processes, which are almost as long as the second 

 joint itself Superior appendages half as long as inferior, 2-joiuted : 

 joint 1 cylindriciil, stout; joint 2 as long as first, slender, tapering 

 to an acule point. 



