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taining bracoiiides End." and magnifica Alex.", species with 

 the head black. It differs from both of these species and 

 from all other banded winged species, in its reddish thoracic 

 dorsum. 



Eriocera sublima sp. n. (PI. IX, fig. 12.) 



Head red ; thorax black ; abdomen black, the last segment orange ; 

 wings dark brown with a very narrow white cross band at the cord. 



Female. — Length, 13.2 mm.; wing, 11.4 mm. Rostrum and palpi dark 

 brown ; antennx with the scapal segments deep orange-red, flagellar 

 segments dark brown; front, vertex and occiput fiery orange, the gense 

 darker. 



Thorax dark brownish black, the mesonotum without well defined 

 stripes. Halteres black. 



Legs very dark brownish black, the tips of the tibise and tjie tarsi 

 much paler, light brown. 



Wings dark brown, the alar band white and very narrow, of about 

 the same width as the cell istM2 ; anal cells of the wing scarcely paler. 

 Venation, see Plate IX, figure 12. 



Abdominal segments dark brown, the last segment abruptly fiery 

 orange. 



Holotype, female, Minas Geraes, Brazil, 1897. Ex Coll. 

 Fruhstorfer, in the Hungarian National Museum. 



This species differs from all of the forms with banded 

 wings in the very narrow, white alar band, and in its very dark 

 brownish coloration. 



Eriocera chrysoptera Walker. (PI. IX, fig. I,?.) 



1856. Lfimnobia chrysoptera Walker; Ins. Saunders, vol. i. Dipt., 

 p. 438. 



1902. L. chrysoptera Kertesz; Cat. Dipt., vol. 2, p. 171. 



1913. Eriocera chrysoptera Alexander; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. ; vol. 

 44, No. 1966, p. 490. 



1914. Eriocera chrysoptera Alexander; Psyche, vol, 21, p. 37. 

 Female. — Length, 18.8 mm.; wing, 13.6 mm. Rostrum, palpi, an- 

 tenna and head very deep black. 



Thorax black. Halteres short, black. 



Legs, coxae and trochanters black, basal portion of femora dark 

 brownish black, this dark base narrowest on the fore legs, broadest 

 on the hind legs where it covers almost one-third of the segment, tip 

 of femora black, the middle portion bright yellow ; tibiae and tarsi 

 very dark brown. 



"Enderlin, Zool. Jahrb., vol. 32, pt. i, p. 47, fig. Bi (1912). 



'■i^ Alexander, P.syche, vol. 21, pp. 37, 38; pi. 4, fig. 7 (1914). 



