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PSYCHODID^. 



PsYceoDA. 

 Latreille^ Precis^ etc. 179G. 



Table of Species. 



1. Wings with small dark spots at the tips of the veins, 



alternata, Say. 

 Wings not with dark spots at the tips of the veins ... 2 



2. Black or dark brown, with dark hair . . . antennalis^ n. sp. 

 Light yellow, with white hair 3 



3. Wings very narrow, lanceolate .... angustipenius, n. sp. 

 Wings of the usual shape palleiis, n. sp. 



1. Psychoda alternata. (PL IX.^ fig. 49, wing.) 



Psychoda alternata, Say, Lonor's Exped., App., 358 ; 

 Compl. Wr., i., 242 ; Wiedemann, Aus. Zw. Ins., 

 i., 23; Williston, Entom. News, iv., 114; Banks, 

 Can. Entom., xxvi., 330. 



Hah. New England States ; Pennsylvania; ' South 

 Dakota; Kansas. 



A single, injured, specimen seems -to belong to this 

 species, though I cannot be sure of the identity without 

 examining better preserved specimens. 



2. Psychoda antennalis, n. sp. 



$ . Black or dark brown, with dark hair. Antennse stout, the 

 joints moniliform, about as long as the thorax. Wings with a 

 distinct picture formed by the hairs, which are black, save an apical 

 white fringe, and two subconfluent spots of the same colour beyond 

 the middle on the outer side of two spots of denser black hair. Front 

 legs black, the base of the metatarsi and the middle joints white. 

 Length 1-1|^ mm. 



3. Psychoda pallens, n. sp. (PI. IX., figs. 50, hypopy- 

 gium j 50a, wing.) 



$. Wholly light-yellow, with white or yellowish-white hair. 

 Hair of the wings not long ; at the tip a minute blackish spot ; 

 furcations approximated to the base of the wing. Antennae 

 rather slender, not as long as the mesonotum, with rather long 

 verticellate hairs. Legs moderately long ; tarsi rather stout. 

 Length 1-^ mm. 



