New or Little-known Exotic Tipulidae. 61 



not extending to the wing-basis. Head black; vertical tubercle 

 very inconspicuous. 



Mesonotum black, the praescutum faintly blue-black in certain 

 lights. Pleura with a shimmering white prumosity when viewed 

 obliquely. Halteres dark brown. Legs dark brown; coxae with 

 a conspicuous vvhite pruinosity; fore femora immediately beyond 

 the base with a conspicuous obscure yellow ring that is three or four 

 times as wide as the dark femoral base ; on the middle femora this 

 ring is barely indicated, which would lead to the belief that it 

 would be quite obliterated on the posterior femora. Wings with a 

 faint bro^vnish tinge, the costal region more saturated; stigma 

 brown, very diffuse, including the end of cell Scl, 1st Ml, all of E2 

 and less distinctly the end of cell i?3 ; veins brown. Venation : 

 Sc long, Scl ending just beyond the fork of Rs, Sc2 about twice its 

 length from the tip of Scl; Rs long, gently arcuated; ultimate 

 section of Rl about equal to r — m ; basal section of R2 about one- 

 half longer than r ; deflection of i?4 + 5 very short ; cell Ml 

 lacking; cell 1st M2 rectangular; basal deflection of Cul just 

 before mid-length of cell 1st 312; Cu2 and the basal deflection of 

 Cu\ subequal. 



Abdominal tergites shmy black; second and third sternites 

 obscure reddish at base; hypopj^gium black. 



The type was collected in Venezuela in 1864 by Lindig. 

 Type in the collection of the Vienna Museum. 



Eriocera nigra (Wiedemann). 



1828. Limnohia nigra Wiedemann; Aussereur. zweifl. Ins., 

 Th. I, p. 27. 

 The type series is before me. This consists of three 

 males and two females, one of the males being selected as 

 lectotype. 



Male. — Length 16 mm. ; v/ing 16-5 mm. 



Female. — Length 22-24 mm. ; wing 16-5-20-8 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi brownish black. Antennae short, black, if 

 bent backward ending far before the origin of the wing. Vertical 

 tubercle appearing as two, short, slightly diverging cones. Head 

 brownish black, including the tubercles. 



Thorax dark brown, the praescutal stripes faintly indicated in 

 some specimens. Halteres and legs browiiish black. Wings dark 

 brown, basad of the arculus a very little more yellowish, but this 

 not at all conspicuous ; veins brown. Venation : Scl ending just 



