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Psyche 
[June- August 
pleurae opaque black; sternopleurae with as very strong posterior 
and a rather weak anterior bristle. I.egs piceous; coxa; and 
trochanters silvery pollinose; knees fuscous; front femora with 
a row of long hairs on its anterior side, middle femora with a 
row of seven strong anterior preapical setae; middle tibiae with 
five extensor, two on basal third and three on apical third, and 
two flexor bristles, one at middle and one near apex; (preapical 
bristle absent in male) hind tibiae without marcochaetae, hind 
metatarsi thickened, one-half as long as the much thinner second 
joint. Wings slightly browned, with heavy black markings 
along all veins with the exception of the third vein; veins black; 
costa ending slightly be^mnd third vein; first section short, 
ciliate, with two basal bristles, equal to third and three-fourths 
as long as second; penultimate sections of third and fourth 
veins subequal, one-third as long as last section of second vein 
and two and one-half times outer crossvein, third vein slightly 
bent forward, then backward and again forward on last section, 
and ending near wing-tip; fourth vein traceable to wing-margin, 
fifth vein produced a short distance beyond outer cross vein; 
discal cell broad at middle and narrowed at outer crossvein. 
Abdomen opaque, hairy, second segment a little longer than the 
others. Halteres yellow. 
Length 4 mm. 
Type. — Female; Portland, Oregon. Aug. 20, 1909. (Melan- 
der). 
Paratypes . — Three specimens from Adna, Lake Cushman, 
and Quilcene, Wash. (Melander). 
Leptocera (Opacifrons) sciaspidis n. sp. (Fig. 10). 
Shining black; Front two times as broad as deep, slightly 
convex; setigerous stripes and frontal triangle slightly gray 
dusted, the divergent stripes velvety black; fronto-orbital 
bristles strong, widely divergent, the lower three-fourths as long 
as upper; orbital setulse not extending above the upper fronto- 
orbital bristle, the upper three, bristle-like, the upper most 
setae nearly as strong as the posterior p^ir of interfrontal bristles; 
