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exceptupon a broad transverse band near thebaseand an outwardly 

 curved row of small patches just beyond the middle, which are 

 white; fringe both on anterior and posterior marofin. with alter- 

 Tiite patches of white and black hair; length of wing 2.8 mm. An- 

 tennae black, as? long as the width of the wing, 17-joints; joints 1-3 

 stout, cyliiidrical, densely hairy; joints 4-17 small, fusiform, thinly 

 clothed with long white hair. Ventral plate brown, shallowly 

 emarginate at apex: ovipositor brown, rather long, almost straight. 



Habitat: Seattle^ Wash. Swept from bushes May 8, 1898. 

 Pericoma bipunctata, n sp 



9 Body brown, clothed with white bair. Legs brown, clothed 

 with white hair, some of the latter being long Wings broadly 

 rounded at the tip, about tv/ice as long as broad, clothed upon the 

 veins with white and black hiir, the black most pronounced at the 

 apices of the veins and upon the bifurcations, the white most evi- 

 dent near the base and towards the apex, where there are small, ir- 

 regular patches of this color; fringe black, except a spot extending 

 from the apex of the third longitudinal vein to the end of the 

 seventh and a small patch between the eighth and ninth vein, which 

 are white; bifurcations equidistant from the bass of the wing; 17- 

 jointed; joint 1 rather large, cylindrical ; joint 2 broader taanl, 

 globular ; joints 3-17 fusiform, clothed with scattered white hairs; 

 joints 3-4 bear dorsally a row of strong erect black setae. Ventral 

 plate squarely produt^ed, slightly emarginate at apex. 

 S" Gentalia conspicuous, black, clothed with white hair. 

 Habitat: Seattle, Wash. (1^); Santa Cruz Mountains, Cal- 

 (Id"; 19); from the collection of Leland Stanford Junior 

 University. 

 Pericoma furcata, n. sp. 



? Body brown, clothed with white hair, among which a few- 

 black hairs are scattered. "Wing twice as long as broad, narrowly 

 rounded at the apex, which is pointed between the simple veins: 

 viens clothed with black and white hairs as follows: Two curved 

 rows of prominent black tufts across the middle of the wing, be- 

 tween which the hair is principally white; the area between the 

 outer row of black tufts and the apex of the wing principally with 

 black hair • area between the inner row of blatk tufts and base of 

 wing, with mixed black and white hair: fringe black, with white 

 tufts at apices of all the veins; bifurcations equidistant fi*om the 

 base of the wing; length of wing 2.8 mm. Antennae as long as the 

 width of the wing, 16-jointed ; joints 1-2 slightly larger than the 

 succeeding ones; joints 3-lG swollen at base and bearitig loose tufts 

 of black hair. Legs with alternate annulations of black and white 

 hair. Ventral phite dilated basally, and strongly produced in the 

 middle, the production bilobed and angularly emarginate at apex ; 

 ovipositor moderately long, almost straight. 



