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little), and Chevy Chase, Maryland, May 25, 1915, TD445(> 

 (G. E. Ouinter) ; male and female in copula, Cropley, Mary- 

 land, May 1, 1904 (F. Knab) ; and one male, St. Louis, Mis- 

 souri, May 1, 1904 (W. V. Wanier). 



Female. Whole head silvery burnished, with faint shade of 

 golden, especially noticeable on parafrontals. Frontalia brown, 

 but covered with the golden pollen. Antennae rufous, third 

 joint largely blackish. Palpi fulvorufous. Beard brassy-gray. 

 Thorax and scutellum pollinose, two narrow vittje and two 

 wider outer ones ; scutellum rufotestaceous apically. Abdomen 

 thinly silvery above except the very densely pollinose narrow 

 bases of second and third segments and whole of fourth. 

 Venter thinly pollinose. In oblique lights the thin pollen ap- 

 pears thicker. Legs black, femora silvery on outside. Wings 

 clear, tegulae tawny-white. 



TWO NEW CRANE-FLIES FROM PORTO RICO^ 



(Tipulldic, Diptcra) 

 By CHAR1.es p. AIvEXANDER, Ithaca, N. Y. 



The following insects are included in the collection of the 

 United States National Museum and were kindly handed to 

 me for identification by Mr. Frederick Knab, the custodian 

 of the Diptera. These new forms may be characterized as 

 follows : 



Eriocera ocellifera, new species. 



Antenna; pale ; head dark ; body orange, the tip of the abdo- 

 men black ; wings light yellow with a rather sparse brown pat- 

 tern including an ocellate mark having the origin of the radial 

 sector as its center. 



Male. Length, 10.5 mm.; wing, 9.8 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi light brown, the latter a little more yel- 

 lowish. Antennae short, the scapal segments dark brown, the 

 first flagellar segment pale dull yellow, a little darker at the 



'Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory of Cornell Uni- 

 versity. 



