1899] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 35 



Habitat : Pullman, Wash. Collected by Mr. R. W. Doane, 

 of the Washington Agricultural College, 



Pericoma trunca'a, n. sp. 



¥ Body bi'own, densely clothed with mixed white and dark 

 brown hair. Wings ovate, broadly rounded at the tip, not quite 

 twice as long as broad ; hair upon the veins principally dark brown, 

 with a rather large pitch of white neir the middle of the wing and 

 its apex: fringe dirk brown, on posterior margin as long as the 

 width of threa cells and with small patches of white hair alternating 

 with the brown tufts at the apices of the veins; bifurcations of the 

 veins equidistant from the base of the wing ; length of wing 4 mm. 

 Legs brown, clothed with brown hair and scales, interspersed with 

 a few longer white hairs. Antenna; black, not quite as loug as the 

 wid^h of the wing, 17-jointed ; joint 1 rather large, cylindrical ; 

 joint 2 large, globysa; joints 3-16 fusiform, covered with scattered 

 hairs; joint 17 minute; ventral plate longer than broad, broadly 

 truncate at the apex ; ovipositor yellow, long and slender, strongly 

 curved. 



Habitat : Palo Alto, Cal. From the collection of the Leland 

 Stanford Junior University. Collected by Mr. E. E. Snod- 

 grass. 

 Sycorax lanceolata, n. sp. 



? Body brown, clothed with brown hair, which appears black in 

 some lights. Wings extremely nari'ow, four times as long as broad, 

 apex sharply acuminate and pointed exactly at the tip of the single 

 simple nervure; anterior and posterior bifurcations distant from 

 the base of the wing, respectively, two-thirds and one-third the 

 wing's length ; veins unevenly clothed with brown hair, similar to 

 that upon the body ; fringe very heavy, colored similarly to the hair 

 upon the veins, on the posterior margin some»vhat shorter; length 

 of wing 2 mm. Legs brown, clothed with brown hair, except on 

 the basal joints of all the tarsi, which are covered with white hair 

 Antennae short, stout, about three-fourths as long as the width of 

 the wing. 15-jointed; joint 1 cylindrical ; joint 2 globose, larger 

 than succeeding joints ; joints 3-1.5 linear and spai'sely clothed with 

 brown hair. Ventral plate elongate, broad at the base, and nai^ 

 rowed towards the apex, which is bilobed and lineai'ly emarginate. 



Habitat : Palo Alto, Cal. August 3, 1898. One specimen; 

 Santa Cruz Mountains. August 9, 1895. Three specimens; 

 collection of the Leland Stanford Junior University. Almota, 

 Wash. Ten specimens, collected by Mr. R. W. Doane, of the 

 Washington Agricultural College. 



This interesting species belongs to Halliday 'S second division 

 of the Psychodidse, containing genera with a single simple 



