12 ERIOCERA ALBIPUNCTATA, 



My description (/. c.) only refers to the Q. In the 

 Ley den Museum are a few male specimens from Java 

 (Muller and Blume) , which seem to belong to this spe- 

 cies, though in most of them the white tip on the wings 

 is absent, so that the name, which I have given to the 

 species, appears to be derived from an inconstant cha- 

 racter. In the specimens referred to the abdomen is bright 

 reddish-yellow , with the incisions and narrow lateral 

 stripe black ; the hind margin of the fifth segment is 

 black, pointed towards the front; the sixth segment is 

 black , on both sides with a pair of yellow spots close to 

 each other ; the last segment and the genitals are entirely 

 black. The wings are less dark and more brownish-yellow 

 than those of the female described; hence the white spot 

 on their tip, if it is present, is not so distinct. 



25. Eriocera Hilpa^ Walk. 



Pteroscopiis Hilpa , Walk. List Dipt. Brit. Mus. L 79. 



The description may be applied to a female specimen 

 from Ningpo in China (Felder), but as this description is 

 very short and incomplete , I here give a more ample one. 



9- Long. 17 mm. — Dull black, including the palpi 

 and halteres; abdomen with a little lustre; the front 

 margin of the first segments metallic or somewhat silvery. 

 Basal joints of the antennae black ; the third and follow- 

 ing joints obscurely fulvous , with a short fuscous pilosity. 

 Thorax covered with short [hairs ; ovipositor ferruginous , 

 its long and pointed end shining. Legs piceous. Wings 

 dark brown , the hind margin beneath the anal vein 

 greyish; beyond the middle, but before the discal cell, is 

 a large white spot, which is limited below by the postical 

 vein and above is angularly bent towards the apex a little 

 before the small cross- vein , which unites the subcostal vein 

 with the upperbranch of the radial vein ; almost above this 

 cross-vein is a small white spot; there are also greyish 

 spots in some of the cells; the wings have but four pos- 

 terior cells. 



Notes iroin the Leyden AXuseum , Vol. "VII. 



