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The Neotropical Tipulidae in the Hunearian Nat- 

 ional Museum (Diptera) — III. 

 By Chas. p. Alexandkr. Ithaca. N. Y. 



(Plate LX.I 

 Tribe 3— Eriopterini. 

 Genus Erioptera Mcigcn. 

 1803. F.rioptcra Meigen; Tlliger's Magaz., vol. 2, p. 2C2. 

 Erioptera (Mesocyphona) annulipes Williston.' 



One female from San Bernardino, Paraguay. Fiebri<^, 1908; 

 one female from Callanga. Peru. 

 Erioptera (Mesocyphona) sp. 



One female from Paraguay, taken by Fiebrig. It is closely 

 allied to unmaculata Alexander. 2 

 Erioptera (Mesocyphona) sp. 



One male from Coroico. Bolivia. Closely allied to caloptcra 

 Say.3 



Genus Molophilus Curtis. 

 '•*'33- ^lolophilus Curtis; Brit. Entoniol., p. 444. 

 Molophilus flavidus sp. n. (PI. IX fijr. 2). 



Color yellowish; male antennae elongate; ventral appendage of the 

 male hypopygium deeply, bifid. 



Male. — Length, about 4.1 mm. ; wing, 5.6 mm. Palpi brown ; an- 

 tennae elongate, the segments covered with a dense pubescence, an-' 

 tenn^ very light brown ; head dull yellow. 



Pronotum pale yellow without apparent stripes, the lateral margin 

 of the sclerite and the sides of the pronotal scutellum very light yel- 

 low; scutum, scutellum and postnotum light brownish yellow. Pleura 

 light yellow. Halteres, stem yellow, knob broken. 



Legs, coxx and trochanters yellow ; femora yellow basally darkened 

 into brownish on the apical half; tibiae and tarsi brown. 



Wings pale yellowi.sh, veins light yellow, indistinct. Venation : basal 

 deflection of /?4 plus 5 very reduced, or, in other words, the veins 

 R2 plus 3 and /?4 arise almost directly from the end of Rs- 



Abdomen light yellowish brown. Hypopygium with the ventral ap- 

 pendage (see Plate IX. fig. 2) very deeply bifid, the inner branch short- 

 er, at its tip slightly denticulated, the outer branch very long, bearing 

 > Williston, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 294 (1896). 

 'Alexander, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 44, No. 1966, p. 518; pi. 66, 

 fig. 20. 

 ^Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. 3, p. 17 (1823). 



