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JvVings light yellow, heavily suffused with brown, including the costal 

 jarea, broad seams to all the veins and cross-veins restricting the 

 .ground-color to the central portions of the cells; apex of the wings 

 :broadly seamed with brown. Venation as in fig. 6; forks of Rs and 

 R2 + 3 acute; the deflection of R4 + 5 longer than r-m; r-m and the 

 deflection of Mi + 2 in a line. 



Abdominal tergites bright orange-red, the first segment black at the 

 base; hypopygium black; sternites yellow, trivittate with black, the 

 median stripe interrupted, heaviest on the basal sternites. 



Habitat: Santo Domingo. 



Holotype: $, Sanchez, Santo Domingo; May 28-31, 1915. 

 (No. F 3682, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.) 



This group of the genus will probably be found to include 

 many species when the crane-fly fauna of the Antilles is better 

 known. - It seems to be a case comparable to that found in this 

 same genus in Ceylon where there are in the neighborhood of 

 a dozen species forming a peculiar group or section. There 

 are now four species of Eriocera known from the West Indies 

 and they may be separated by the following key : 



1. Wings hyaline with the costal margin brown, this color running to 



beyond the wing-apex; (body-coloration light orange-red). (Santo 



Domingo). aetherea, sp. n. 



Wings hyaline or yellowish with brown markings on the wing-disk. 2 



2. Wings with three bands, the first at the wing-root, the second at 



the origin of the radial sector extending across the wing and con- 

 necting with the basal band in the anal cells ; wing-apex largely 

 dark, the cells RS, RS, Mi and MS grayish hyaline in their middle 

 portions ; thorax yellowish with a grayish blue bloom especially on 

 the pleura and coxa; abdomen with blackish bands on the anterior 

 margins of the segments, the incisures yellowish. (Porto Rico.) 



trifasciata Roder. 



Wings not trifasciate; thorax orange without grayish blue bloom; 

 abdomen without blackish cross-bands. 3 



3 Wings with an interrupted brown pattern that is ocelliform at the 

 base of the sector; thorax orange, unmarked; legs with the coxae 

 orange; femora yellow tipped with dark brown; claws yellow. 

 (Porto Rico). ocellifera Alexander. 



Wings light yellow, heavily suffused with brown, this consisting of 

 very broad seams to all the veins; thorax orange with black spots 

 on the pleura ; legs with the coxae largely blackish ; femora dark 

 brown with a dull yellow subterminal annulus; claws black. (Santo 

 Domingo). domingensis, sp. n. 



