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the tarsi biack; coxae with a fe^v long liairs on tlie anterior face; legs 

 covered with a long, semi-erect pubescence; metalarsus near the base uilh 

 two long black splnes concealed among the long hairs. Wings rallier 

 uarrow, with a faint yellowish tinge, the anal cells ahnost hyaline; tip of 

 the wing infumed; distinct dark bro\\n spots at tlie origin of Rs, ibik 

 of /^s, at r, at the end of vein /(2 and a Idotch in tlie end of cell /?2 ; narrow 

 paler brown seams along the cord and onter end of cell i st M 2- A tnft of 

 about niue long black hairs on the posterior side of the wing-petiole and 

 aboul six others along the and anal vein, proximate of the level of the 

 arculus. \enation : Se extending to beyond r, very close to R[ at the 

 wing-margin; Ri+s about as long as Rs: basai dellection of 7^+5 very 

 long and strongly arcnated at its origin; pétiole of cell Mi longer 

 than either this cell or i st I/2; cell 1 st il/2 hexagonally snbrectan- 

 gular; basai deflection of Cui before midlength of cell 1 st M 2. 



Abdomen rich velvety-orange , brighler near the latéral and caudal 

 margins of the lergites, the latter ringed with pale, ffypopygium dark 

 brown, the ninth tergite not tumid, its posterior niargin almost straight 

 across; pleurites long; pleural appendages two in number, the ontermost 

 moi-e slender, slightly curved to the acute tip. Penis-guard long and 

 slender, subtended by the two acicular straight gonapophyses which are 

 subequal in size to the guard. 



Habitat. — French Congo. 



Holotype, c?, environs de Brazzaville, 1907 (E. Roubaud et A. Weiss). 



Tribe HEXATOMINI. 



Genus Eriocera Macquart, 



Eriocera flavocincta, uov. sp. 



General coloration black and orange; head and abdomen orange, the 

 thorax, wings and legs largely blackish, the femora wilh a conspicuous 

 orange-yeliow subterminal ring. 



Female. — Length, about i5 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi brown. Antennae short, the tirst segment light 

 brown, remainder of the antennae dark brown. Front between the eyes 

 shiny brown; remainrler of the head dark orange. Head small; frontal 

 tubercle distinct, divided by a longitudinal furrow. 



Thorax mostly black, the posterior Iwo-thirds of the scutal lobes, the 

 scutellum and postnolum dull yellow. Pleura black, the outer face of the 

 fore and middie coxae largely, of the hind coxae eutirely, reddish. Meso- 



