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taining braconides End.4 and magnifica Alex.”, species with 
the head black. It differs from both of these species and 
from all other banded winged species, in its reddish thoracic 
dorsum. 
Eriocera sublima sp. n. (Pl. IX, fig. 12.) 
Head red; thorax black; abdomen black, the last segment orange; 
wings dark brown with a very narrow white cross band at the cord. 
Female.—Length, 13.2 mm.; wing, 11.4 mm. Rostrum and palpi dark 
brown; antennze with the scapal segments deep orange-red, flagellar 
segments dark brown; front, vertex and occiput fiery orange, the genz 
darker. 
Thorax dark brownish black, the mesonotum without well defined 
stripes. Halteres black. 
Legs very dark brownish black, the tips of the tibize and the tarsi 
much paler, light brown. 
Wings dark brown, the alar band white and very narrow, of about 
the same width as the cell 1stM2; anal cells of the wing scarcely paler. 
Venation, see Plate IX, figure 12. 
Abdominal segments dark brown, the last segment abruptly fiery 
orange. 
Holotype, female, Minas Geraes, Brazil, 1897. Ex Coll. 
Fruhstorfer, in the Hungarian National Museum. 
This species differs from all of the forms with banded 
wings in the very narrow, white alar band, and in its very dark 
brownish coloration. 
Eriocera chrysoptera Walker. (PI. IX, fig. 13.) 
1856. Limnobia chrysoptera Walker; Ins. Saunders, vol. 1, Dipt., 
p. 438. 
1902. L. chrysoptera Kertesz; Cat. Dipt., vol. 2, p. 171. 
1913. Eriocera chrysoptera Alexander; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.; vol. 
44, No. 1966, p. 490. 
1914. Eriocera chrysoptera Alexander; Psyche, vol. 21, p. 37. 
Female—Length, 18.8 mm.; wing, 13.6 mm. Rostrum, palpi, an- 
tenne and head very deep black. 
Thorax black. Halteres short, black. 
Legs, coxe and trochanters black, basal portion of femora dark 
brownish black, this dark base narrowest on the fore legs, broadest 
on the hind legs where it covers almost one-third of the segment, tip 
of femora black, the middle portion bright yellow; tibie and tarsi 
very dark brown. 
21 Enderlin, Zool. Jahrb., vol. 32, pt. 1, p. 47, fig. Br (1912). 
22 Alexander, Psyche, vol. 21, pp. 37, 38; pl. 4, fig. 7 (1914). 
