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Dorsal pleural appendage a fleshy lobe bearing many hairs; middle 

 pleural appendage a slender acute spine ; ventral pleural appendage 

 with the apex flattened, smooth, chitinized, bi-lobed; the ventra 1 

 margin of the appendage with two prominent teeth whose margin" 

 are minutely denticulate (see figs, i, 3). helophila, sp. n. 



Tribe He.vatomini. 

 Eriocera aetherea, sp. n. (Text fig. 5.) 



Male. Length, 11 mm.; wing, 9.3 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae with the scape black, the 

 flagellum broken. Head brownish gray. 



Thoracic dorsum clear reddish orange without darker markings, the 

 scutellum and postnotum with a very indistinct bluish cast. Pleura 

 yellowish red. Halteres black, the base of the stem brownish. Legs with 

 the coxae and trochanters reddish ; femora black, more yellowish bas- 

 ally, this area narrowest on the fore legs, broader on the middle legs, 

 the hind legs broken ; tibiae and tarsi black. Wings hyaline, the costal 

 area dark brown, this color continued around the wing as a narrow apex 

 extending through cell R$ of the wings ; veins slender. Venation as in 



fig. 5- 



Abdomen orange-red, including the hypopygium. 



Habitat: Santo Domingo. 



Holotype : $ , San Lorenzo, Santo Domingo ; June 27-29, 

 1915. (No. F 3785, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.) 



Eriocera domingensis, sp. n. (Text fig. 6.) 



Male. Length, 14 mm.; wing, n mm. 



Rostrum short, reddish brown; palpi brown. Antennae short, first, 

 third and fourth segments black; second segment subglobular, brown; 

 flagellum beyond the second segment brownish yellow, darker toward 

 the tip of the organ; each of the first two segments of the flagellum a 

 little longer and stouter than the third. Head lead-gray, along the 

 inner margin of the eye with numerous short black hairs. 



Thoracic dorsum dull reddish, the mesonotal stripes just indicated, 

 brownish red; remainder of the dorsum slightly suffused with brown. 

 Pleura yellowish red, shiny, the mesepisternum with a large black 

 area that is continued up to the wing-root and cephalad along the lateral 

 edge of the praescutum; a narrow black line running from above the 

 middle coxa across the mesepimeron to behind the wing-root. Hal- 

 teres short, black, only the base of the stem a little paler. 



Legs with the coxae dull reddish yellow, the outer faces suffused 

 with black; trochanters dull yellow; femora of the fore legs dull yel- 

 low, the tip broadly dark brown, a very broad median area brownish ; 

 middle and hind femora black with an indistinct dull yellow subapical 

 band ; tibiae and tarsi black, the claws of the latter concolorous. 



