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each antenna. Eyes black, bare, ist joint of scape long, cylindri- 

 cal, black; 2nd very short, globular, yellowish : flagellum yellowish, 

 with short black hairs ; of five very elongated joints of diminishing 

 length, the last one black. Palpi black, pubescent, 2nd joint the 

 widest, 1st and 4th the longest. 



Thorax deep velvet-black with short black pubescence; a 

 slight dark reddish tinge above the neck. Scutellum deep black. 

 Dorsum of metanotum bright reddish orange, bare. 



Abdomen deep velvet-black. On the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th 

 segments, a broad shining lead-coloured band extending round the 

 whole segment and covering it with the exception of a posterior 

 marginal band of a width of one-fifth of the segment ; 6th seg- 

 ment wholly deep black; 7th, basal half occupied bj^ a similar 

 leaden band, apical half black. Seen from behind, there is a silver 

 sheen on the sides of the segments, genitalia conspicuous, bright 

 orange- red, protected below by a blackish plate. Whole abdomen 

 nearly bare. 



Legs. — Coxae black, pubescent: femora and tibiae orange- 

 yellow (the latter rather darker), both with black tips: tarsi dark 

 brown, all the legs minutely pubescent. 



Wings brown, deeper in the centre; costal border to just 

 beyond the ist longitudinal vein distinctly orange-yellow, the 

 colour ending at tip of the auxiliary vein. Wing grey from just in 

 front of the 6th vein to posterior margin. A good-sized white 

 spot (approximately oval) placed obliquely across the basal cells, 

 towards the distal ends, but quite clear of the discal cell. A 

 smaller, circular white spot just above, and a little in front of the 

 larger one, situated just beyond the middle of the marginal 

 cell, and a white oval spot at apex of wing, just covering the tips of 

 the two submarginal cells. Five posterior cells. Halteres black. 



Described from one d" in the Indian Museum (type) from 

 Ukhral, Manipur, captured by the Rev. W. Pettigrew, viii-08 ; and 

 a second specimen (in the Pusa collection) taken b^' Mr. F. M. 

 Howlett at Darjiling, 3 — g-vi-09. 



Eriocera fencstrata, mihi, sp. nov. 



& 2 . Assam, Tonkin. Long. 20 mm. 



Head. — Frons broad, flat, dull black with sparse hair; ocellar 

 triangle small ; proboscis, antennae and palpi dark brown. 



Thorax.— DoxsMva. orange-red, not shining, the colour at the 

 sides sharply ending on a level with the wing-roots, but it gradualh' 

 becomes bright orange on scutellum and metanotum ; pleurae semi- 

 translucid brown, slightly tinged with orange. 



A bdomen with the basal half of each segment sublucid leaden 

 grey, shining, posterior half dead black. The abdomen gradually 

 widens from the base to the 6th segment, which is the widest, 

 thence sharply narrowing. Ovipositor somewhat robust, dark 

 brown, practically bare, the long terminal points shining red-brown. 



Legs wholly very dark mahogany-brown, nearly black. 



