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Abdomen long, tergites dark brown; sternites dark brown on the 

 basal third and along the sides ; remainder of each segment yellow. 



Holotype, female, Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the Hungarian Na- 

 tional Museum. 



Limnophila conspersa Enderlein. 19 



One female from Espirito Santo, Brazil. More properly re- 

 ferred to Limnophila than Lecteria or Psaronius. 



Genus Epiphragma Osten Sacken. 



1859. Epiphragma Osten Sacken ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci, Phila., p. 

 238. 



Epiphragma cordillerensis Alexander. 20 



One female, Callanga, Peru ; one, sex uncertain, from San 

 Antonio, Bolivia. 



Tribe 5 HEXATOMINI. 

 Genus Eriocera Macquart. 

 1838. Eriocera Macquart; Dipt. Exot., vol. I, pt. I, p. 74. 



Eriocera perdecora sp. n. (PI. IX, fig. 11.) 



Head black ; thoracic dorsum reddish ; abdomen black ; wings brown 

 with a broad yellow cross band and yellowish anal cells. 



Female. Length, about 18.5 mm. ; wing, 14.4 mm. Rostrum and palpi 

 black ; antennse black ; head black. 



Pronotum black ; mesonotum entirely light orange-yellow, the ex- 

 treme lateral margin of the sclerites dark brown. Pleurse dark brown- 

 ish black. Halteres black. 



Legs, coxae and trochanters dark brown ; femora brown, darker at 

 the tip ; tibiae and tarsi dark brown ; middle and hind femora with the 

 basal half brighter, brownish yellow. 



Wings dark brown, cells C and Sc yellow ; a broad yellow band across 

 the wing mostly before the cord; anal cells largely yellowish. Vena- 

 tion, see Plate IX figure u. 



Abdominal tergites dark brownish black, the last segments more red- 

 dish, valves of the ovipositor dark brown; sternites, basal segments a 

 little brighter, the last segment reddish. 



Holotype, female, Callanga, Peru, in the Hungarian Na- 

 tional Museum. 



In my key to the Neotropical Hriocerae (Psyche, vol. 21, pp. 

 34-37. 1914.) perdecora would run down to the couplet con- 



19 Enderlein, Zool. Jahrbuch, vol. 32, pt. I, pp. 49, 5 (fig- DO (1912). 

 (as Dactylolabis). 



20 Alexander, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., vol. 21, pp. 202, 203, pi. 5, fig. 8 



(1913). 



