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Psyche 
[September 
notum pale, a broad, median brown stripe; rest of notum 
pale, side of the metanotum marked with brown; pleura 
mostly brown; legs pale yellow; abdomen dull yellowish. 
Wings hyaline; fore wings with several large brown spots, 
many irregular smaller marks, more or less forming oblique 
transverse bands, a row over each gradate series, the larger 
spots near middle, another row before the first gradate 
series, with the large spots behind, and a large spot over 
the cross-vein between medius and cubitus; veins pale, 
with scattered brown dots; margin interruptedly pale and 
brown. Hind wings pale; veins pale, a few gradate veins 
dark. Fore wings not very broad, four radial sectors, the 
fourth forked once before the cross-vein, no cross-vein 
between the first and second sectors near base. 
Expanse 15 mm. 
From Angora Peak, Tahoe, Calif. (Van Duzee.) 
Synopsis of Species of Boriomyia of United States 
1. No cross-vein between the last (third) radial sector 
and radius ; one between first and second sectors near 
base; hind wings with tip and costal mark brown — 
subgenus — new Allotomyia, 2 
A cross-vein between last radial sector (either third 
or fourth) and the radius; hind wings without large 
brown marks 3 
2. Gradate series marked with dark brown speciosa 
Gradate series not dark, but broad brown area before 
first gradates and beyond the second gradates ...fidelis 
3. Face pale, with a few dark spots or dots 4 
Face uniform shining brown 6 
4. A large brown spot at base of antennse truncate below ; 
three radial sectors, the third usually forked but once 
before the cross-vein 5 
No such spot, face with small dots; four radial sectors, 
or if three, the third forked twice before cross- 
vein longipennis 
