NO. 1906. SYNOPSIS OF NEOTROPICAL LI MNOBIN/E— ALEXANDER. 515 



stripe on either side of the middle line, this stripe narrow in front, 

 broader behind, continuing almost to the suture, not touch- 

 ing the tuberculate ])its; on the side of the sclerite, anterior to 

 the pseudosuture, the ground color is brighter, ycllo-\\-ish ; scutum 

 similar in gi-ound color, a forked brown stripe on either side which 

 is a prolongation of the median pra^scutal strii)es; scutellum graj-ish, 

 paler beliind; post notum gray with a brown median stripe; tuber- 

 culate pits and pseudosuture dark brown. Pleurae grajash with three 

 oblique bro^\^l bands; t)ne (doreal) passing thi-ough the mesothoracic 

 spiracle; the second from the foreleg to the meta-notum; between 

 these two, a yellow Ime extending from the cervical sclerites caudad; 

 third dark band passes just above the mesocoxa; the second and thh'd 

 8trii)es delimit a broad, conspicuous, silver}'- white area; sternum 

 gray. Ilalteres light yellow, the knob darker, brownish. Legs: 

 coxa bro\\Ti; trochanter, paler, 3'ellow; femora yeLlow with a brown 

 subapical ring; tibia and tareus light yellow, the apical two tarsal 

 segments darker, bro\vTi. 



Wings: graA-ish-brown \\\ila. uumen)us white spots and dots 

 abundantly s])rmkled in all the cells; the larger spots being (1) in 

 base of cells K and JI; (2) at the origin of Rs; (3) at Scj extending 

 from the costa to the sector; (4) at the tip of Sci and (5) along the 

 basal deflection of Cu„ the veins browni except where the spots en- 

 croach upon them where they are yellowish- white. (See fig. 28.') 



Abdomen: tergum yello-\\-ish-brown, A\-ith a narrow black median 

 stripe and a broader lateral one; sternum j'ellowish. 



Rdbiiat. — Holotype. — ^lale, Totonicipan, Guatemala, C. Am.; 1902 

 (G.Eisen). Allotype. — Female, Avith the holotype. Paratype. — Male, 

 with the holotype. 



Type. — In V. S. National Museum Cdllection (No. 14922). 



ERIOPTERA (MESOCYPHONAi KNABI, new species. 



Vertex gi-ayish-brown, uuicolorous; niesonotum dull gray, dorsal 

 stripes veiy narrow; ])leurul stripi-s rather indistinct; apical half of 

 femora dark; costal and sub-costal cells of wing dark with a few large 

 spots. 



Female. — Length, 4 mm; ^\-ing, 4.2 imn. Head: rostrum and paljn 

 dark brown; antemias unifdrmally brown; front, vertex and occiput 

 graA-ish-brown with a darker linear brown s])ot on vertex. 



Thorax: pronotum white, the scutellum pale browii on the middle 

 line, giving the appearance of being divided. ^Mesonotum: prse- 

 scutum dull gray; the extreme lateral margins narrowly white; 

 continued caudad from the end of the pro thoracic scutellum; a broad 

 sublateral band begummg near the ])seudosuture, contmuing caudad, 

 indislinct, brown. The lateral bands on either side of the broad 



1 In the figure. No. 2S, the vein 5c was accidentally omitted. 



