60 Prof. Charles P. Alexander on 



Mesonotal praescutum yellowish grey with three dark brown 

 stripes ; remainder of the mesonotum dark brown, the scutal lobes 

 sparsely pruinose. Pleura dark brown. Halteres dark brown, the 

 base of the stem narrowly paler. Legs with the coxae and tro- 

 chanters dark bro-mi; femora yellow, the tips rather broadly and 

 conspicnously dark brown; the posterior legs show an indication 

 of a pale bro^vn, post-median band ; tibiae obscure yellow, the tips 

 rather narrowly darkened; tarsi brown. Wings light broAvn, 

 sparsely variegated with light yellow ; stigma slightly darker brown ; 

 a narrow yellow band along the cord, on the cephalic part of the 

 wing lying mostly proximad of the cord, beyond cell \st M2 lying 

 a little more on the distal side of the cord in cell Cul ; a yellow spot 

 at origin of Rs; yellowish seams along r and the outer end of cell 

 \st 312; costal and subcostal cells proximad of h light yellow; 

 cell 1st A pale, only the distal end darkened; veins light browTi, 

 more flavous in the yellow areas. Venation : Scl ending opposite 

 the fork of Rs; cell 1st 312 comparatively long and narrow, the 

 proximal end somewhat arcuated ; m only about one-half the outer 

 deflection of 313; basal deflection of Cul at from one-third to one- 

 fourth the length of cell 1st M2. 



Abdomen with the first tergite dark brownish black; segment 

 two yellow, the extreme base and apex ringed with black ; segments 

 three and four yellow, the caudal margins narrowly ringed with 

 dark brown; segments five and six black, forming a subterminal 

 rmg; remainder of abdomen, including the hypopygium, obscure 

 orange. 



Hah. Brazil. 



Holoiype, ^. The label reads " Brazil (Blumenau) Loth. 

 Hetschko." 



Paratojjotyjje, ^. 



Type in the collection of the Vienna Museum. 



Eriocera schinerl, nom. nov. 



1868. PentJi(yptera fuliginosa Schiner; " Reise Novara," 

 p. 42 ; a species of Eriocera, non E. fuliginosa Osten 

 Sacken (1859). 

 The type may be re-described. The condition is good 



except that there are no posterior and but one middle leg 



remaining. 



3Iale. — Length 12-6 mm.; wing 11-2 mm. 

 Fore-leg, femur, 6-7 mm. ; tibia, 8-1 mm. 

 Middle leg, femur, 7-7 mm. ; tibia, 8 mm. 

 Rostrum and palpi black. Antennae black, if bent backward 



