1914) Alexander—New or Li tle-known Neotropical Hexatomini 41 
largely brown, tawny in the middle; scutellum and post-scutum tawny; postnotum 
tawny. Pleurz yellowish-tawny; sternum light yellow. Halteres tawny, knobs 
rather darker. Legs brownish-yellow, scarcely darker at the apices of the segments. 
Wings: cells C and Sc tinged with yellow, rest of wing greyish; stigma very indis- 
tinct, rounded. Venation (see fig. 3.). Sc rather long, ending just beyond the level 
of cross-vein r-m; Sc2 longer and much stronger than Sc: which is reduced in size 
and simulates a cross-vein (as in zonata O. S.); R, very long, nearly straight; R2+s 
long; cross-vein 7 oblique, inserted on R:» just beyond the fork. 
Abdominal segments 1-5, light yellow; 6-7 deep brownish black; hypopygium 
broken. 
Holotype co. Songo, Bolivia. (Received from Staudinger-Bang-Haas). Type 
in author’s collection. 
Eriocera kaieturensis sp. noy. 
Large species (wing 17-21 mm.); head yellow; thoracic dorsum striped; legs with 
a broad subapical yellow band; wings with an indistinct yellowish band before the 
cord, stigma distinct. 
ov, Length, about 19 mm.; wing, 17 mm.; antenne about 4 mm. 
Hind leg, femur, 11.4 mm.; tibia, 11.5 mm.; tarsus, 7.4 mm. 
Q, Length, about 25 mm.; wing, 20.8 mm. 
Middle leg, femur, 11 mm.; tibia, 10.9 mm.; tarsus, 8.9 mm. 
Hind leg, femur, 14.3 mm.; tibia, 14.8 mm; tarsus, 8.5 mm. 
o&, Rostrum and palpi brown; antenne short, segments 1 and 2 bright orange, 
remaining segments brown. Front, vertex and ccciput bright orange-yellow. 
Mesonotal prascutum light yellowish-brown pollincse with a broad darker 
brown median stripe, broadest in front, narrowed to a pcint 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 behind 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 preescutal stripes; scutellum 
light brownish-yellow. Pleure darxer brown dorsally, beneath much paler, 
yellowish. Halteres, stem dull yellow, knob brown. Legs: coxze and trochanters 
orange-yellow, the latter with a narrow black line; femora yellow, darkened at 
the tip and indistinctly and breadly darker beyond the middle producing a yellow 
subapical band; tibiz dull yellow; tarsi dull yellow, each segment tipped with 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 Ri; veins brownish-yellow. Venation as in figure 1. 
Abdominal tergum, segments rich yellowish-brown, darker apically; 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 o’, but larger. 
Holotype, o&. Kaietur Falls, Potaro R.; British Guiana. August 8, 1911. 
(F. E. Lutz.) Allotype, 9. Savanna, North Brazil. August 20,1911. (Cramp- 
ton.) Paratype, @. Ceara, East Brazil. (Senor D. Rocha.) Holotype and 
Allotype in American Museum of Natural History. Paratype in Muzeu Rocha, 
Ceara, Brazil. 
