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Dorsal pleural appendage a fleshy lobe bearing many hairs ; middle 
pleural appendage a slender acute spine ; ventral pleural appendage 
with the apex flattened, smooth, chitinized, bi-lobed; the ventral 
margin of the appendage with two prominent teeth whose margins 
are minutely denticulate (see figs, i, 3). helophila, sp. n. 
Tribe Hexatomini. 
Eriocera aetherea, sp. n. (Text fig. 5.) 
Male. — Length, 11 mm.; wing, 9.3 mm. 
Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae with the scape black, the 
flagellum broken. Head brownish gray. 
Thoracic dorsum clear reddish orange without darker markings, the 
scutellum and postnotum with a very indistinct bluish cast. Pleura 
yellowish red. Halteres black, the base of the stem brownish. Legs with 
the coxae and trochanters reddish; femora black, more yellowish bas- 
ally, this area narrowest on the fore legs, broader on the middle legs, 
the hind legs broken ; tibiae and tarsi black. Wings hyaline, the costal 
area dark brown, this color continued around the wing as a narrow apex 
extending through cell R5 of the wings; veins slender. Venation as in 
fig- 5- 
Abdomen orange-red, including the hypopygium. 
Habitat: Santo Domingo. 
Holotype : $ , San Lorenzo, Santo Domingo ; June 27-29, 
191 5. (No. F 3785, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.) 
Eriocera domingensis, sp. n. (Text fig. 6.) 
Male. — Length, 14 mm.; wing, 11 mm. 
Rostrum short, reddish brown; palpi brown. Antennae short, first, 
third and fourth segments black; second segment subglobular, brown; 
flagellum beyond the second segment brownish yellow, darker toward 
the tip of the organ; each of the first two segments of the flagellum a 
little longer and stouter than the third. Head lead-gray, along the 
inner margin of the eye with numerous short black hairs. 
Thoracic dorsum dull reddish, the mesonotal stripes just indicated, 
brownish red; remainder of the dorsum slightly suffused with brown. 
Pleura yellowish red, shiny, the mesepisternum with a large black 
area that is continued up to the wing-root and cephalad along the lateral 
edge of the praescutum; a narrow black line running from above the 
middle coxa across the mesepimeron to behind the wing-root. Hal- 
teres short, black, only the base of the stem a little paler. 
Legs with the coxae dull reddish yellow, the outer faces suffused 
with black; trochanters dull yellow; femora of the fore legs dull yel- 
low, the tip broadly dark brown, a very broad median area brownish; 
middle and hind femora black with an indistinct dull yellow subapical 
band; tibiae and tarsi black, the claws of the latter concolorous. 
