286 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Oct., 'l8 



Holotype: $, Los Cerritos, California, March 14, 1915. 

 (M. C. VD.) 



This interesting fly is closest to P. vipio O. S. but is a very 

 different species, being much smaller and showing unmistak- 

 able signs of degeneracy of the wings. I take great pleasure 

 in dedicating this interesting crane-fly to Mr. VanDuzee, 

 who collected the type specimen. 



Family TIPULIDAE. 

 Tribe Eriopterini. 

 Erioptera (Erioptera) cinctipennis sp. n. 



Coloration gray, praescutum with four narrow brown stripes ; wings 

 dusky, cross-banded with subhyaline. 



$. Length 4.5-5 mm.; wing 5.4-5.7 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi black. Antennae black, short, the flagellar seg- 

 ments short, oval, with a dense pale pubescence. Head dark gray. 



Pronotum gray, the scutellum more yellowish. Mesonotal praescu- 

 tum brownish-gray with four narrow brown stripes, the intermediate 

 pair longer; pseudosutural foveae elongate, conspicuous, jet black, ex- 

 tending obliquely across the segment just in front of the lateral 

 stripes ; scutum gray with two brown spots on each lobe ; scutellum 

 and postnotum light gray. Pleura clear light gray. Halteres light 

 yellow throughout. Legs with the coxae brown, sparsely gray pruinose ; 

 trochanters and femora brown, the latter broadly darkened apically ; 

 tibiae and tarsi dark brown. 



Wings comparatively narrow, strongly suffused with dark brown, 

 the basal portion of the wings, a broad band before the ,cord and the 

 broad subapical regions clearer, presenting an appearance of a clear 

 narrow band before the cord and a broader brown band extending 

 from the stigma across the wing; stigma distinct, dark brown; veins 

 dark brown. Venation as in subgenus ; 7?^+-j? usually short, about 

 equal to, or a little longer than, r or r-m; second anal vein not greatly 

 sinuated. 



Abdomen dark brown, the apices and lateral margins of the segments 

 narrowly pale and with sparse golden hairs. Hypopygium more red- 

 dish. 



Holot\pe: S, Los Angeles, California, April 29, 1915. (M. 

 C. VD.) 



Paratopotypes, four $, April 26-May 3, 1915. 



Paratypes, two $ , Los Cerritos, California, March JT, 11)15. 

 (M. C. VD.) 



