53-1 TIPULID.E. 



" This species is allied to E. selene, Os. Sac, aud U. albo- 

 notata, Lw. From the former it differs in its larger size and in 

 the absence of the central lunule of the wings." (Edivards.) 



Length 16 millim. (without ovipositor) ; of wiug 15 millim. ; 

 of legs 27-28 millim. 



Described from a type male from Kandy, 19. v. 92, a type 

 female from Kottawa, Ceylon, 29. iv. 92, and another female 

 from Pallamadulla. Ceylon, 17. vi. 92 (Lt.-Col. Yevhunj). 



Types in the British Museum. 



379. Eriocera scutellata, Ediu. 



Eriocera scutellata, Edwards, Aim. Masr. Xat. Hist. (8) viii, p. 65 

 (July 1911). 



" Head orange, darker brown behind the eyes, dark-haired. 

 Eront with two prominent tubercles. Scape of antenna? dark 

 brown, flagelkim ochreous, blackish towards the tips. Thorax 

 ferruginous orange ; mesonotum with three longitudinal black- 

 brown stripes ; the median one is narrowed behind and extends 

 almost back to the suture, where it is seen to be double ; the 

 lateral stripes broaden out behind the suture and extend as far 

 as the scutellum. Scutellum orange-yellow. Metanotum dark 

 brown. Abdomen: in male deep orange, 1st segment brown, 

 segments 2 to 4 with black lateral borders, segments 5 to 7 

 all black except for a narrow apical oi-ange border ; in female 

 lighter orange with a black lateral line. Legs : femora ochreous 

 witli blackish tips ; tibiae and tarsi blackish, tibiae more ochreous 

 towards the base. Wings a uniform ochreous brown. In the 

 female the discal cell of one wing is open. Halteres brownish." 

 (Edwards.) 



Length, (S 18 millim., $ 15 millim. ; wing, c? 24 millim., 

 2 16 millim. 



Described from a single male and female from Pundaluoya, 

 Cevlon, taken September 1892 and October 1897 respectively 

 (E. E. Green). 



Types in the British Museum. 



Mr. Edwards says : — " There is little doubt tliat the two 

 specimens belong to the same species, tliough they differ in the 

 colour of the abdomen and the length of the wiug." 



380. Eriocera rufithorax, sp. nov. 



Head blackish grey, very shortly pubescent ; frons nearly one- 

 third width of head, narrower towards antennae. Proboscis and 

 the robust palpi black, shortly pubescent. Antennal scape very 

 dark brown, 2ud joiut one-fourth as long as the 1st ; flagellum 

 brownish yellow, pubescent; the whole lengtli of the antennae 

 about equal to that of the thorax from the projecting mesonotum 

 to the tip of the scutellum. Thorax., including scutellum and 

 metanotum, wholly bright reddish orange. Neck very short. 



