44 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



Teucholabis carolinensis, sp. n. 



Male — Length 4.2 mm.; wing 4 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi black Antenna- black. Head black with 

 a slight grayish pubescence. 



Mesonotal pra^scutuni dark brownish black with a sparse 

 grayish pile, the lateral margins of the segment broadly yellowish 

 l)r()wn. Pleura dull brown with an indistinct dark brown stripe 

 extending from the cervical sclerites caudad, becoming indistinct 

 before the halteres; sternites brownish yeflow without darker mark- 

 ings. Halteres short, pale, the knob brown Legs with the co.xae 

 and trochanters dull yellowish; femora dull brownish \ellow with 

 the apex rather narrowl>' blackened; tibia' yellowish brown, the 

 tips of the hind legs scarcely darkened, the anterior pair narrowly 

 blackened; tarsi black. Wings narrow, nearly hyaline, the stigma 

 quite indistinct, the \eins dark brown. 



Abdomen brown, the sternites somewhat paler. 



Holotype, cf , South Island, Georgetown Co.. S. Carolina; Aug. 

 19, 1915 (Alexander). 



The type is in the collection of the author. 



Tribe Eriopterini. 

 Genus Trimicra Osten Sacken. ~ 



? Trimicra empedoides, sp. n. 



Male — Length 5.5-5.8 mm.: wing 7.7-8 mm. 



Female — Length 5.7 mm.; wing G mm. 



Rostrum dull yellow, the palpi brown. Antennae having the 

 first segment with a gray bloom, the second segment dull yellow, 

 flagellar segments dark brown with the base more yellowish, this 

 bicoloured appearance becoming obliterated on the terminal seg- 

 ments. Head pale yellow with a light gray bloom. 



Thoracic dorsum light gray, without stripes, excepting a very 

 indistinct and narrow median vitta on the extreme anterior portion 

 of the praescutum; beneath the gray bloom are three stripes; the 

 lateral margins of the praescutum pale, yellowish; tuberculate pits 

 situated far back on the sclerite, about on a level with the pseudo- 

 sutural fovew; the interspaces between the usual thoracic stripes 

 with sparse coarse hairs; scutellum pale flesh colour. Pleura gray 

 and yellow, the dorso-pleural membranes more yellowish. Halteres 



