New or Little-known Exotic Tijpulidae. 63 



Eriocera melina, sp. n. 



General coloration yellow; head orange; mesonotal praescutuni 

 and scutum marked with light grey; femora browii with a sub- 

 terminal yellow ring; wings of a saturated yellow, darker beyond 

 the cord, the veins narrowly margined with light yellow ; abdomen 

 yellow with a conspicuous brownish black subterminal ring. 



Male. — Length about 14-5 mm. ; wing 12-5 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae -Rath the scapal 

 segments fiery orange ; flagellum broken. Head entirely orange ; 

 vertical tubercle rather high, scarcely notched. 



Pronotum brown. Mesonotal praescutuni chestnut- brown with 

 four light grey stripes; scutum light grey; scutellum and post- 

 notum obscure yellow. Pleura brownish yellow, the dorsal pleurites 

 a little darker. Halteres short, yellow, the knobs dark brown. 

 Legs with the coxae and trochanters obscure brownish yellow; 

 only the posterior femora and tibiae remain; femora dark brown, 

 the basal quarter obscure yellow ; a conspicuous subterminal yellow 

 ring before the slightly broader brown tip; tibiae brown, the tips 

 dark brown ; tarsi broken. Wings with a saturated yellow suffusion 

 that deepens into brownish in the cells beyond the cord and less 

 distinctly in the anal cells; all the veins are narrowly bordered 

 by a conspicuous, light yellow margin; veins obscure yellow. 

 Venation : 8c comjDaratively short, 8cl ending a short distance 

 beyond the fork of Rs, Sc2 almost exactly oj)posite this fork ; r less 

 than its length beyond the fork of i?2 + 3 ; cell 1st M2 rather small, 

 pentagonal ; basal deflection of Cicl at or immediately beyond the 

 fork of M. 



Abdomen shiny honey- yellow with a consi^icuous, brownish black 

 subterminal ring, this latter including the extreme margin of tergite 

 five, all of tergites six and seven, and more than the basal half of 

 eight; of the sternites, only sternite six is distinctly included in 

 this ring ; extreme caudal margins of tergites three and four indis- 

 tinctly darkened. Hypopygium obscure reddish. 



Hab. Paraguay, 



Holotype, ^, San Bernardino {Fiebrig). 



Type in the collection of the Vienna Museum. 



Ozodicera (Dihexaclonus) panamensis, sp. n. 



3Iale. — Length, 235 mm. ; wing, 20 mm. ; abdomen alone, 

 165 mm. 



Generally similar to 0. (D.) fumipennis Loew, of Brazil, 

 differing as follows : 



