38 Psyche [February 



cf. Length, 14 mm.; wing, 12.4 mm.; antennte about 3.8 mm. 



Fore leg, fem. 7.6 mm.; tibia, 9.7 mm.; tarsvi-s 1, 4.9; i-5, 4,1 mm. 

 Middle leg, fem. 9 mm.; tibia, 9.0 mm. 

 Hind leg, fem. 9.8 mm.; tibia, 11.8 mm. 

 9 , Length, 21 mm.; wing, 10.3 mm.; antennae about 5 mm. 

 Fore leg, fem. 9.9 mm.; tibia, 10.6 mm.; tarsus, 8.4 mm. 

 Middle leg, fem. 11.4 mm.; tibia, 10.9 mm. 

 Hind leg, fem. 12.8 mm.; tibia, 13 mm. 

 cT, Rostrum and palpi dark brown; antenna;, two basal segments brown; flagel- 

 lum very dark brownish-black. Front, vertex and occiput tleep brown. Frontal 

 tubercle moderately broad, deejjly notched. 



Thoracic dorsum dark brownish-black without distinct stripes; pleura; more 

 brownish. Legs and halteres dark brownish-black. 



Wings (fig. 7) brown with a broad light yellow band slightly beyond the middle, 

 its outer margin ju.st distad of the cord. 



Abdominal tergum, basal half shiny, apical half dull black. 9 . similar to cf 

 but larger and the genital segment reddish. Paratype paler and evidently newly- 

 emerged; same place and date as the allotj-pe. 



Holotype, cf. Trece Agiias, Cacao, Alta Vera Paz, Guatemala. April 5. 

 (Schwarz and Barber.) .Vllotype, 9 same locality and collector as the cf, 

 April 9. Paratj-pe, 9 with the allotype. Types in the U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll. 

 Paratype in the author's collection. 



In its blacki.sh head, mugnifica agree.s most closely with braconides 

 Enderlein (Zool. -Jahrb./vol. m, pt. I; p. 47; fig. B'; 1912) of 

 Coloiuhia; the remaining species with banded wings have the 

 head oon.spicuously orange or yellow. Braconides differs very 

 notably in its pale wing-basis, light bloom on the head, different 

 leg-pattern, etc. 



Eriocera perpulchra sp. nov. 

 Head reddish; frontal tubercle notched; wings yellow with two brown bands. 

 cf. Length, 20.8 mm.; wing, 16.G mm.; abdomen about 16 mm.; 

 .\ntenna; 3.2 mm. 



Middle leg, femora, 10.4 mm.; tibia 11 mm.; tarsus 8.3 mm. 



Hind leg, femora, 11.8 mm.; tibia 13.6 mm.; tarsus about 8 mm. 



cf , Rodrum and palpi dark brown, .\ntennie, segments 1-2, orange-yellow; 



segment 3, yellow basally, passing into dark brown at the tip; remaining segments 



dark brownish-black. Front, vertex and occiput bright orange, rather obscured 



posteriorly. Frontal tubercle very broad, truncated in front and broadly notched. 



Pronotum very dark brown. Mesonotum, prascutum, medially broadly dull 



chocolate-brown with three narrow darker lines, one median, the other two on the 



sides of the broad median band, these dark vittie becoming indistinct behind; sides 



of the sclerite anterior to the pseudosuture brighter, orange; sides of the pra-scutum 



behind, dark colored; scutum, scutellum and poslnotum dark brownish-black. 



Pleura; dark brown, rather lighter colored on the ventral srlerites. Halteres, stem 



