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The Neotropical Tipulidae in the Hungarian Nat- 
ional Museum (Diptera)—III. 
By Cuas. P. ALEXANDER, Ithaca, N. Y. 
(Plate IX.) 
Tribe 3—ERIOPTERINI. 
Genus Erioptera Meigen. 
1803. Erioptera Meigen; Illiger’s Magaz., vol. 2, p. 262. 
Erioptera (Mesocyphona) annulipes Williston.! 
One female from San Bernardino, Paraguay, Fiebrig, 1908; 
one female from Callanga, Peru. 
Erioptera (Mesocyphona) sp. 
One female from Paraguay, taken by Fiebrig. It is closely 
allied to immaculata Alexander.? 
Erioptera (Mesocyphona) sp. 
One male from Coroico, Bolivia. Closely allied to caloptera 
Say.® 
Genus Molophilus Curtis. 
1833. Molophilus Curtis; Brit. Entomol., p. 444. 
Molophilus flavidus sp. n. (Pl. IX fig. 2). 
Color yellowish; male antenne elongate; ventral appendage of the 
male hypopygium deeply bifid. 
Male—tLength, about 4.1 mm.; wing, 5.6 mm. Palpi brown; an- 
tennae elongate, the segments covered with a dense pubescence, an- 
tennz very light brown; head dull yellow. 
Pronotum pale yellow without apparent stripes, the lateral margin 
of the sclerite and the sides of the pronotal scutellum very light yel- 
low; scutum, scutellum and postnotum light brownish yellow. Pleure 
light yellow. Halteres, stem yellow, knob broken. 
Legs, coxz and trochanters yellow; femora yellow basally darkened 
into brownish on the apical half; tibia and tarsi brown. 
Wings pale yellowish, veins light yellow, indistinct. Venation: basal 
deflection of R4 plus 5 very reduced, or, in other words, the veins 
R2 plus 3 and R4 arise almost directly from the end of R5. 
Abdomen light yellowish brown. Hypopygium with the ventral ap- 
pendage (see Plate IX, fig. 2) very deeply bifid, the inner branch snort- 
er, at its tip slightly denticulated, the outer branch very long, bearing 
1 Williston, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 204 (1806). 
2 Alexander, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 44, No. 1966, p. 518; pl. 66, 
fig. 20. 
3 Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. 3, p. 17 (1823). 
