340 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. XV, 



Eriocera maculiventris, sp. nov. 



(Plate viii, fig. 18.) 



^ $. Assam. Long. ^ 12|, $ 15 mm. to tip of ovi- 



positor. 



Head blackish-grey with stiff black hairs ; proboscis, palpi and 

 antennae blackish, tip of 2nd scapal joint narrowly pale ; flagellum black 

 pubescent. 



Thorax all black, slightly shining, black pubescent, traces of grey 

 dust on sternopleura. 



Abdomen black ; dorsal surface of 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th segments 

 mainly orange, the colour occupying basal half of 2nd segment except 

 at sides, and the whole of the 3rd, 4th and 5th segments except for a 

 moderately narrow hind border and side margins. In some specimens 

 the orange colour fills nearly all the dorsal surface of all four segments. 

 Genitalia in (^ black, pubescent, of moderate size ; in $ orange, apical 

 half shining brown. Belly black, 3rd and 4th segments considerably 

 orange. 



Legs black. 



Wings blackish, central part, beginning with marginal cell and ex- 

 tending without definite outline to hind margin, clearer, the pale part 

 limited irregularly by the " cross veins." Traces of a very narrow 

 whitish longitudinal streak in 2nd submarginal and 1st posterior cells. 

 Five posterior cells. In $ the pale part more extensive, spreading over 

 major part of hinder half of wing. Halteres black. 



Described from seven specimens in the Indian Museum, from Tura, 

 Garo Hills, 1,200-1,500 ft., vii-17 and above Tura, 3,900 ft., vii, viii, x-17 

 {Kemp and Mrs. Kemp). 



This must be near perennis, Os. Sac. by the orange abdominal bands 

 but it differs by the black antennae, the black ultimate abdominal 

 segment in the $, and the black femora and tibiae. In perennis also the 

 wing is yellowish at the base and has a yellowish-white cross band. 



