176 Miss G. llicarJo on the Piingoiniiai 



Erephrosis m'gro-hirta, ? , Walker, List Dipt. pt. i. p. 13L 

 (1848). 



Palpi as above. Wiiij,^3 with appendix, one female has 

 none. 



Hah. Brazil {Mornay) . 



Erephrosis fulvithoraxj Wiedem., Auss. zweifl. Ins, i. p. 89 

 (1828); Walker, List Dipt. pt. i. p. 132 (1848); see 

 Will., Kansas Univ. Quart, iii. p. 189, for cliaracters of 

 male; O. Sacken, CJat. Dipt. N. Amer. (1878). 



Sackenymia fitlrithorax, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ix. (1879). 



One male and two females. 



Palpi as above. Wings have no appendix. Bigot founded 

 his genus Sackenymia for this species, but the bending back- 

 ward at base of the external branch of the third longitudinal 

 vein (his fourth), taken by him as distinctive for the genus, 

 is not peculiar to it, but is common in Pangonia, Latr. 



Hah. Brazil [Mornay^ Vigors^ Noel), Cuba. 



Erephrosis hadia, ^J , Walker, List Dipt. pt. i. p. 132 (1848). 



The type is much denuded. Palpi short, club-shaped, 

 ferru"-inous, clothed with black hairs. Abdomen reddish 

 brown, clothed with black hairs. Pulvilli of tarsi yellow. 

 Wings with an appendix. 



Hah. Brazil {Tucker, Noel). 



Erephrosis Besckii, ? , Wiedem., Auss. zweifl. Ins. i. p. 97 

 (1828) ; Walker, List Dipt. pt. v. Suppl. 1, p. 125 

 (1854). 



The second joint of the palpi is very long and slender, 

 tapering. Wings with an appendix. 

 Hah. Brazil. 



Erephrosis auripes, ? , sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 12.) 



Dark brown. Antennae dark red ; first joint grey, clothed 

 with long black hairs. Palpi red, the edges and tip black, 

 the second joint very long and tapering. Frontal stripe 

 covered witli hoary pubescence on the posterior half near the 

 antennae; face with hoary pubescence. Beard white. Thorax 

 covered with black pubescence and with black hairs on the 

 anterior half of the lateral margins, then white, and a thick 

 tuft of white hairs at base of wings extending to the scutellura ; 

 breast with white hairs on the sides, and black hairs in the 

 centre. Abdomen black ; tufts of white hairs on the posterior 



