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at the margin of the sclerite, there is a small, brown line between the lateral 

 and intermediate stripes that crosses the suture onto the scutal lobes. The 

 femoral tips are broadly dark brown, but the tibial tips are but narrowly and 

 indistinctly darkened. The wings are narrower with a much heavier pattern, 

 the markings at Sci and Ri, and at Ri and R3 being confiuent behind; a few 

 brown dots in the costal and subcostal cells between the larger blotches; petiole 

 of cell Ml a little longer than this cell. Male hypopygium with the pleurites 

 rather slender. Outer pleural appendage blackened, terminating in a long, 

 curved hook whose outer margin is not minutely tooth as in many species of 

 the subgenus; on the outer face before the tip with a stout spine; a small, black- 

 ened tubercule on the inner margin near the base of the appendage. Inner 

 pleural appendage stout and broad, flattened, covered with numerous seta?. 



Habitat. — California. 



Holotype.— d', Apline, San Diego Co., April 9, 1915, (M. C. Van Duzee). 



Type in the collection of the author. 



Eriocera saturata, new species. 



Antennae black, the scapal segments brighter; prsescutum yellowish gray 

 with four dark brown stripes, the intermediate pair narrow; wings reddish 

 brown; cell Mi lacking; abdomen dark brown, the lateral margins broadly 

 yellowish . 



Female. — Length 13.5 mm.; wing 9.4 mm. 



Rostrum short, light brown. Palpi black, the basal segments more brownish. 

 Antennae with the scapal segments yellowish brown above, reddish beneath; 

 flagellum black. Head broad, brown, with an indistinct darker median area. 

 Frontal tubercle dark brown. 



Mesonotal praescutum yellowish gray with four dark brown stripes, the 

 intermediate stripes very narrow, separated from one another by a distance a 

 little less than the diameter of one; anterior portion of the scutal lobes dark; 

 scutellum grey, with the extreme base darkened; postnotum grey. Pleura 

 clear silvery grey, the dorsal pleural region dark brown. Halteres short, brownish 

 yellow, the knobs dark brown. Legs with the coxae pale browm, sparsely grey 

 pruinose; trochanters brownish yellow; femora brownish yellow, narrowly 

 darker at the tips; tibiae and tarsi brown. Wings with a strong reddish brown 

 sufTusion, the colour being a little darker than in E. californica O. S.; a small, 

 brown cloud on r-m; veins Sc and R brown, remaining veins dark brownish 

 black; stigma indistinct. Venation: Cell Afi lacking; vein M1+2 beyond cell 

 1st M2 longer than this cell. 



Abdominal tergites dark brown, the lateral margins broadly yellowish. 

 Ovipositor rusty red; sternites light brown, margined laterally with yellow. 



Habitat. — California. 



Holotype.— 9, Fallbrook, San Diego Co., August 2, 1917, (E. G. Holt). 



Type in the United States Biological Survey collection. 



E. saturata is closest to E. velveta Doane from which it may be told by its 

 deep, saturated reddish brown wings with the stigma not darkened, the greater 

 length of the veins issuing from cell 1st M2, the colour of the abdomen and 

 other characters. 



