A NEW GENUS OF THE TYPHLOCYBINI. 



C. F BAKER. 



In Typhlocybids with marg-ined wings we find one 

 g-enus with three apical cells, two with two apicals, and 

 one with one. In those without a marg'inal vein we have 

 had cases of three cells (Eupteryx) and of two cells (Typhlo- 

 cyba) in the wing-. To complete this parallel series now 

 conies a little Typhlocybid from Nicaragua, the smallest, 

 slenderest species I have seen in the tribe or even in the 

 family. This insect has the aspect of Typlilocylm and but 

 a sing-le apical cell in a wing- without a marg-in. The 

 elytron is altogether unique for it is angled at the apex, 

 making the large stalked second apical cell diamond- 

 shaped, I name the new genus Typhlocybelhi. 



Typhlocybella minima n. sp. 



L,ent;-th 2.25 mm. Color sordid white with fine olive marking's. 

 Face darker, with a tranverse line above. An irreg-iilar line runs 

 around apical and lateral marg^ins of vertex within the b >rder. The 

 pronotum bears four more or less distinct long-itudinal olive lines. 

 Elytron transparent, the veins margined with smoky and.the apical 

 cells suffused with smoky. A golden cloud occurs near base of 

 corium. Tergum and venter mostly black. 



Collected at Managua, Nicaragua by the author. 



THE GENUS ERYTHRIA IN AMERICA, 

 C. F. BAKER. 



In Nicaragua I found a number of small, thick set, 

 highly colored Typhlocybids, which have the venation of 

 Dicraneura, but differ widely from that genus in character- 

 istic proportions of body. They are exactly congeneric 

 with the European species of Erythria, and I shall de- 

 scribe them under that name, although none have yet been 

 described from America, I called attention to the possible 

 Status of this genus in "Psyche" several years agp. 



