AKT. 2 NEW UNDESCRIBED CRAITE FLIES ALEXANDER O 



black. Female with the genital segment bright fulvous, the elongate 

 valves of the ovipositor more horn-colored. 



Habitat. — China (Szechuen). Holotype, male, Shin Kai Si, 

 Mount Omei, altitude 4,400 feet, July 1-30, 1921 (D. C. Graham). 

 AUotopotype, female. Paratopotype, female. 



Type.— Msile, Cat. No. 40320, allotype, female, U.S.N.M. 



Eriocera cyhele is another of the numerous recently discovered 

 species of the genus that run to E. hilpa Walker, by Edwards's key 

 to the Old World species of the genus.^ It is most closely allied to 

 E. obliqua Alexander, of Macao,* differing in the longer and nar- 

 rower white crossband of the wing and the slightly different vena- 

 tion. The ovipositor has the genital segment bright fulvous, the 

 valves only a little duller in color. In E. obliqua., the genital segment 

 is black, the valves dark horn color. 



ERIOCERA ARROGANS, new species 



Head black; antennae short; thorax dull black with three shiny 

 blackish gray stripes ; legs dark brown ; wings gray, the veins before 

 the cord broadly margined with rich yellowish brown, beyond the 

 cord similarly margined with darker brown; cell Mi present, deep; 

 abdomen black, including the genital shield. 



FeTiiale. — Length, about 12 mm. ; wing, 11 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi black. Antennse brownish black, the outer 

 flagellar segments somewhat paler; antennse short, if bent backward 

 not attaining the wing root. Head dull black, the vertical tubercle 

 not conspicuous. 



Mesonotum intense dull black, the praescutum with three broad 

 shiny blackish gray stripes that are virtually confluent behind, re- 

 stricting the ground color to the humeral triangles and broad lateral 

 margins; remainder of notum of the same shiny blackish gray as 

 the praescutal stripes. Pleura shiny blackish gray. Halteres black, 

 the knobs broken. Legs with the coxae and trochanters black; re- 

 mainder of legs dark brown, the femoral bases a trifle paler; legs 

 relatively short (fore leg,, femur, 5.6 mm. ; tibia, 7 mm. ; tarsus about 

 5.8 mm.). Wings with the very restricted ground-color gray, the 

 base and costal region darker; all veins before the cord broadly 

 margined with rich yellowish brown, restricting the ground color to 

 median streaks in the principal cells; beyond the cord the color 

 changes abruptly to darker brown, with similar pale centers to the 

 cells; anal sells more extensively grayish; vein second A conspicu- 

 ously seamed with brown ; veins dark brown, G and So paler brown. 

 Venation (fig. 8) : Sc^ ending opposite the fork of ^2+3+4? S<^2 just 



3 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., set. 9, vol. 8, 1921. 



*Proc. Hawaiian Ent. Soc, vol. 5, pp. 255-256, 1923. 



