74 
Psyche 
[June 
Laphystia rubra, new species 
A small species distinguished by the uniformly shining, 
dark red abdomen and the almost entirely brownish yellow 
femora. Length 8 mm. 
Female. Head : The head is black. Face laterally with 
silvery, minute, appressed pubescence, brownish yellow in 
the middle on the upper half ; the mystax consists of 2 
or 3 rows of short, stout, brownish yellow bristles above 
the epistoma. There are a few fine, white hairs on the 
upper part of the face laterally which are not very long 
and appressed. First 2 segments of antenna black, the 
third brownish black, the first segment with 2 long and 
1 short, stout, brownish yellow bristle below. Front in 
the middle with pale brownish yellow pollen, the sides 
more whitish. Upper front and medial part of the vertex 
adjacent to the eye with a few, short, stiff, brownish yel- 
low setae. Occiput with fine pile except above, where 
there are 7 pairs of slender, reddish yellow bristles. 
Thorax: The thorax is black, pleuron thinly dusted with 
yellowish white pollen and a few long, yellowish hairs 
on the mesopleuron. Metapleuron with a vertical row of 
12 quite slender, pale yellowish hairs and a few other 
short hairs. Mesonotum with abundant, minute, flat ap- 
pressed yellow setae. Bristles brownish yellow, 2 on 
notopleuron, one of which is quite small, 2 above wing, 
2 on post callus, 1 of them small, and scutellar margin 
with only a few minute, upturned setae. Scutellar disc 
likewise with a few appressed, brownish golden, minute 
setae directed outward. Knob of halteres yellow, the base 
reddish brown. Legs: The femora are brownish orange 
with an obscure, dark streak on the dorsal surface of the 
hind femur confined to the outer half. A smaller, distal, 
dorsal, obscure, dark patch on the anterior femur and a 
trace of such color distally on the middle femur. Apical 
fourth of all tibiae obscurely brownish black. All tarsi 
quite dark brown. Pile of legs minute, appressed, pale 
brownish yellow and setate. Bristles weak, pale and few 
in number. There is a whitish bristle ventrally near the 
base of the hind femur and sometimes a second smaller 
bristle a little beyond it. Each femur has near the apex 
