Genus Lepidoplatys. 503 



segments with narrow apical white borders as well ; posterior 

 border-bristles pale golden ; venter mostly white scaled. 



Legs black with scattered white scales on the femora, tibiae 

 and first tarsals ; base of femora bright testaceous, a basal white 

 band on the first tarsals, and on the second, third and fourth fore 

 and mid tarsals ; broader areas to all the segments of the hind 

 legs ; all the ungues large, black, equal and uniserrate. 



Wings clothed with large triangular scales with fimbriated 

 apices and with broad linear lateral scales on the apical area as 

 well, scales black and white ; first sub-marginal cell longer and 

 narrower than the second posterior cell, their bases nearly level, 

 stem of the first sub-marginal one half the length of the cell ; 



Fig. 229. 

 Wing of Lepidoplatys squamiger. 9 . Coquillett. 



stem of the second posterior nearly as long as the cell ; posterior 

 cross-vein nearly its own length from the mid cross-vein. The 

 fringe is very dark. Halteres with fuscous base and knob, middle 

 of stem testaceous, knob clothed with small flat grey scales. 



Length. — 5 to 5 * 5 mm. 



$ . Thorax, abdomen, and legs much as in the J . Palpi 

 dark brown, with patches of white scales and brown hair-tufts ; 

 the two apical segments slightly enlarged. Plume-hairs of 

 antennae brown and golden. Proboscis brown. First fork-cell 

 much longer and narrower than the second, its base nearer the 

 apex of wing, its stem more than two-thirds the length of the 

 cell ; the second posterior cell is very broad, its stem longer than 

 the cell ; posterior cross-vein about half its own length distant 

 from the mid ; there are signs of fuscous markings running 

 longitudinally at the base. 



Length. —5 mm. 



Localities. — California, New Jersey (H. L. Viereck), at West- 

 ville and New Brunswick, in May, June, July ; and at Paterson. 



