16 SOUTH AMERICAN TIPULIDAE 



Femora unicolorous, without a brown ring before the tip; Rs short, straight, 

 oblique; cell 1st M2 longer, almost twice as long as broad; basal deflec- 

 tion of Cui about mid-length of cell 1st M2. brunneicornis sp.n. 

 These two species are the only American forms so far discovered with uni- 

 colorous antennae, the remaining species, yicticornis Osten Sacken23 and vari- 

 cornis Alexander, ^^ having the antennal segments bicolorous. 



Tribe Eriopterini 

 Genus ERIOPTERA Meigen 

 Subgenus Mesocyphona Osten Sacken 

 Erioptera (Mesocyphona) caloptera Say, var. 

 1823. Erioptera caloptera Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, p. 17. 



Three males and one female from Hiiigra, Ecuador, altitude 

 4500 feet, collected by Parish; two males from Lima, Peru, 

 altitude 500 feet, Parish collector. 



This insect, which seems to be a variety of the common 

 caloptera, has a broad dark brown premedian and apical band on 

 the femora, the pale band enclosed by them being a little more 

 extensive than in typical caloptera. 



Erioptera (Mesocyphona) annulipes Williston 



1896. Erioptera annulipes Williston, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 294. 



Two males from Caldas, Colombia, May 12, 1914; a male 

 and a female from CaU, Colombia, May 23, 1914; collected by 

 Parish. 

 Erioptera (Mesocyphona) eiseni Alexander 



1913. Erioptera (Mesocyphona) eiseni Alexander, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 xliv, p. 516, pi. 67, fig. 26. 



One female from Cisneros, Colombia, June 3, 1914; two males, 

 three females from La Cumbre, Colombia, altitude 6600 feet, 

 May 18, 1914; collected by Parish. 



Genus GONOMYIA Meigen 

 Subgenus Leiponeura Skuse 

 Gonomyia (Leiponeura) recurvata Alexander 



1914. Gononnjia {Leiponeura) recurvata Alexander, Jovu-n. N. Y. Ent. Soc, 

 xxii, p. 121, pi. 11, fig. 6. 



23 1869. picticornis Osten Sacken, Monogr. Dipt. N. Am., iv, p. 12S, pi. I, 

 fig. 13. 



^* 1913. varicornis Alexander, Ent. News, xxiv, p. 448, pi. XIV, fig. 10. 



