li)lU Alexamler — Xeic or Lilllc-knoun Xcotropical Hcxatotnini 41 



larfe'dy brown, tawny in the middle; sciitelliim and post-scutum tawny; ixistnotum 

 tawny. Pleune yellowisli-lawny; sternum light yellow. Halteres lawny, knobs 

 rather darker. Legs brtiwnish-yellow, scarcely darker at the apices of the segments. 



Wings: cells (' and Sc tinged with yellow, rest of wing greyish; stigma \ery indis- 

 tinct, rounded, ^■enation (see fig. 3.). Sc rather long, ending just beyond the level 

 of cross-vein r-m; Sc: longer and much stronger than Sci which is reduced in size 

 and simulates a crwss-vein (as in zomita O. S.); R, very long, nearly shaight; U;.i 

 long; cross-vein r oblique, inserted on R; just beyoud the fork. 



Abdominal segments l-j, light yellow; (i~7 deep brownish black; hypoi)ygium 

 broken. 



Holotypc o"'. Songo, Bolivia. (Received fniin Staudinger-linng-IIaas). Type 

 in author's collection. 



Eriocera kaieturensis .sp. nov. 



Large species (wing \7-'il nun.); hea<l yellow; thoracic dorsum striped; legs with 

 a broad subapical yellow band; wings with an iiuiistinct yellowish band before the 

 cord, sligiua distinct. 



'J', Length, about 19 mm.; wing, 17 nun.; autenn.-e about 4 nun. 



Hind leg, femur. 11.4 nun.; tibia. 11.5 nun.; tarsus, 7.4 nun. 

 9, Length, about ii3 mm.; wing, 'iO.S mm. 



Middle leg, fenuir, 11 mm.; tibia, 10.!) mm.; tarsus, 8.9 nun. 

 Hind leg, femur, 14.3 mm.; tibia, 14.8 mm; tarsus, 8.3 nun. 



d". Rostrum and palpi brown; antenna- short, segments 1 and 2 bright orange, 

 remaining segments brown. Front, verle.\ and occiput bright orange-yellow. 



IMcsonotid pra-scntum light yellowish-brown pollinese with a broad darker 

 brown median stripe, broadist in front, narrowed to a point near the suture, this 

 broad band including a narrow, dark brown, median line; two broad lateral stripes 

 of the same brown color on either side, beginning bcliind the pseudo-suture, con- 

 tinuing back across the suture onto the scutal lobes; scutum light yellowish-brown, 

 each lobe brown medially, a continuation of the lateral ])r;escutal stripes; scutellum 

 light brownish-yellow. Pleurse darker brown dorsally, beneath much paler, 

 yellowish. Halteres. stem dull yellow, knob brown. Legs: co.\<e and trochanters 

 orange-yellow, the latter with a narrow black line; femora yellow, darkened at 

 the tip and indistinctly and brcadly darker Ix'yond the middle producing a yellow 

 subapical band; tibia; dull yellow; tarsi dull yellow, each segment tipped w ith brown. 

 Wings: of a pale yellow color, this color rather darker, more greyish, beyond the 

 cord and near the base of the wing; stigma conspicuous, but not dark, brown, 

 occupying the end of cell 1st li,; veins brownish-yellow. Venation as in figure 1. 



Abdominal tergiun, segments rich yellowish-brown, darker api<ally; segments 5 

 and 6 darker; lateral margin of the tergites dark brownish-black, producing a 

 dark lateral abdominal line; sternum yellow. 



9 , Quite as in the cj', but larger. 



Holotype, d'. Kaietur Falls, Potaro R.; British (hiiana. August 8, 1911. 

 (F. E. Lutz.) Allotype, 9. Savanna, North Brazil. August 30, 1911. (Cramp- 

 ton.) Paratype, 9 . Ceara, East Brazil. (Senor D. Rocha.) Holotype and 

 Allotype in .\merican Museum of Natural History. Paratype in Muzeu Rocha, 

 Ceara, Brazil. 



