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enlarged, subequal to the second scapal segment in size, black; remainder 

 of the flagellum reddish brown; verticils of moderate length only. 

 Head light bluish-gray. 



Mesonotal praescutum obscure yellowish-brown, with three broad 

 black stripes, the lateral stripes continued caudad onto the scutal 

 lobes, the median stripe best indicated anteriorly; remainder of scutum 

 dark gray pruinose; scutellum and the posterior margins of the scutal 

 lobes obscure yellow; postnotum black, sparsely gray pruinose. Pleura 

 yellowish, the mesopleura and lateral sclerites of the postnotum darker 

 and faintly grayish pruinose. Halteres bright yellow. Legs with the 

 coxae and trochanters yellow; femora yellow, the tips broadly and con- 

 spicuously brownish black; tibiae and metatarsi dull yellow, the tips 

 narrowly dark brown; remainder of the tarsi dark brown; tibiae and 

 first two tarsal segments each with two powerful bristles close to the 

 tip on the ventral face. Wings nearly hyaline ; veins brown. Venation : 

 Sc short, ending a short distance beyond the origin of Rs; r more than 

 its own length beyond the fork of Rs; R2 rather short, oblique; cell 

 Isi M2 open by the atrophy of m. 



Abdomen reddish brown. Male hypopygium with the pleurites 

 produced into a small fleshy lobe; pleural appendages two in number, 

 the outer appendage bifid, heavily blackened, the two arms almost 

 straight, approximately subequal in length, but one much stouter than 

 the other; inner pleural appendage a pale arm that is slightly expanded 

 distally. Ovipositor with the tergal valves considerably longer than 

 the sternal valves, slightly upcurved. 



Habitat: Formosa. Holotype, d", Funkiko, April 29, 1917 

 (T. Shiraki) No. 1353. Allotopotype, 9, April 21, 1917. 

 Paratopotypes, 3 c^'s, 1 9, April 21-29, 1917. 



Erioptera (Empeda) minuscula sp. n. 



Size very small (wing under 3.5 mm.); head gray; femora yellowish, 

 the tips- rather broadly infuscated ; wings subhyaline ; veins pale brown ; 

 male hypopygium with the pleural appendages not blackened. 



Male. — Length 2.2 mm.; wing, 3 mm. 



Female. — Length 2.8 mm.; wing, 3.3 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennas dark brown, the verticils 

 in the male elongate. Head light gray. 



Mesonotum reddish brown to dark liver-brown, deepest on the 

 anterior part of the praescutum; lateral margins of the praescutum 

 narrowly yellowish. Pleura reddish, sparsely gray pruinose. Halteres 

 yellow. Legs with the coxae reddish yellow; trochanters brownish 

 yellow ; femora obscure yellow, the tips rather broadly infuscated ; tibiae 

 and metatarsi obscure yellow, the tips weakly infuscated; remainder of 

 tarsi dark brown ; two conspicuous bristles before the tips of the tibiae and 

 first two tarsal segments. Wings subhyaline; veins pale brown; stigma 

 lacking. Venation: R^ not conspicuously oblique; Sc ending about 

 opposite one-fifth the length of Rs; cell 1st M2 open by the atrophy of m. 



