288 Maine: agricultural experiment station. 191 i. 



gray, the yellow tint being very noticeable at the base and along 

 the costal margin ; veins pale yellow. A slightly crescentic 

 fuscous band passes over the wing before the apex, growing 

 paler as it nears the posterior margin. There is no fuscous mar- 

 gin to the anal veins (Fig. 202). Southeastern Wisconsin. 

 Specimens bearing MS name dryas (W.M.W.). 



18. Leia cinctd Coquillett. 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phil. 308. 1895. (Neoglaphyroptera). 



Male. Length 4.5 mm. Head, including the mouth parts, 

 yellow, each ocellus situated on a black spot, the median very 

 small; antennae yellow on the 6 basal joints, the remainder 

 blackish. Thorax, pleura and scutellum yellow, a large black 

 vitta at base of each wing extending across the metanotum. 

 Abdomen shining black, base of each segment and the whole 

 of the sixth and seventh, yellow. Legs yellow, bristles of front 

 tibiae minute, those of the others large. Wings yellowish hya- 

 line, unmarked ; base of the radial sector slightly distad of the 

 forking of the media. "Tick Isl. Florida." 



A male specimen from Opelansas, La., and another from 

 AVisconsin (W.M.W.) which I identify as this species have the 

 center of the metanotum, and the venter of the abdomen, yel- 

 low. The hypopygium and the wing of the Louisiana specimen 

 are shown in the figures. (Figs. 98, 203). 



19. Leia decora Loew. 

 Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. XIIL 144. 1869. (Glaphyroptera). 

 Female. Length 3.5 mm; wing 3.3 mm. Head yellow; 

 antennae except the base subfuscous or fuscous; lateral ocelli 

 margined with black, middle ocellus wanting. Thorax yellow, 

 on. each side near the base of the wing with a blackish spot; 

 the setae blackish, the pile yellowish; disk of the scutellum 

 fuscous ; metanotum with median fuscous vitta ; lateral tubercles 

 blackish. Abdomen yellow, the tergites widely and sharply 

 margined with black, the last two segments dorsally and ven- 

 trally wholly black. Coxae and legs pale yellow, apex of hind 

 femora black, tibiae and spurs yellow, tarsi nearly wholly black- 

 ish. Wings yellowish tinged with gray, toward the costa and 

 base more yellowish, stronger veins fuscous ; preapical fascia 

 perpendicular, paler posteriorly, Cuz accompanied by a sub- 

 fuscous cloud. "Georgia." 



