38 Psyche {February 
co, Length, 14 mm.; wing, 12.4 mm.; antennz about 3.8 mm. 
Fore leg, fem. 7.6 mm.; tibia, 9.7 mm.; tarsus 1, 4.9; 2-5, 4.1 mm. 
Middle leg, fem. 9 mm.; tibia, 9.6 mm. 
Hind leg, fem. 9.8 mm.; tibia, 11.8 mm. 
2, Length, 21 mm.; wing, 16.3 mm.; antennz 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. 
3’, Rostrum and palpi dark brown; antennz, two basal segments brown; flagel- 
lum very dark brownish-black. Front, vertex and occiput deep brown. Frontal 
tubercle moderately broad, deeply notched. 
Thoracic dorsum dark brownish-black without distinct stripes; pleuree 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 just distad of the cord. 
Abdominal tergum, basal half shiny, apical half dull black. @, similar to o 
but larger and the genital segment reddish. Paratype paler and evidently newly- 
emerged; same place and date as the allotype. 
Holotype, o. Trece Aguis, Cacao, Alta Vera Paz, Guatemala. April 5. 
(Schwarz and Barber.) Allotype, @ same locality and collector as the &, 
April 9. Paratype, 2 with the allotype. Types in the U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll. 
Paratype in the author’s collection. 
In its blackish head, magnifica agrees most closely with braconides 
Enderlein (Zoél. Jahrb., vol. 32, pt. I; p. 47; fig. B'; 1912) of 
Colombia; the remaining species with banded wings have the 
head conspicuously 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. 
o’, Length, 20.8 mm.; wing, 16.6 mm.; abdomen about 16 mm.; 
Antenne 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. 
3’, Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antenne, 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, prescutum, 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 vittze becoming indistinct behind; sides 
of the sclerite anterior to the pseudosuture brighter, orange; sides of the preescutum 
behind, dark colored; scutum, scutellum and postnotum dark brownish-black. 
Pleurz dark brown, rather lighter colored on the ventral sclerites. Halteres, stem 
