ERIOCERA. 



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300. Eriocera fusca, Edw. 



Eriocera fusca, Edwards, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) viii, p. 66 

 (July 1911). 



J 5 . " Head, thorax, and ahdomea nearly uniform dingy 

 fuscous. Front ratlier produced, but not bituberculated, Lerjs 

 dark fuscous, with submetallic bluish reflections in some lights. 

 Wi7igs uniform fuscous. Neuration, as usual in this genus, 

 is rather variable; in the type male there is a supernumerai-y 

 •cross-vein in the -!nd posterior cell, which in the right wing is 

 bifurcated, so that the left wing has two discal cells and the right 

 wing three. The antennoe are tinged with ochreous, and there 

 are indications of two paler stripes on the thorax alternating with 

 three dark ones." (Edwards.) 



Length 10-13 millim. ; of wing 8-11 millim. 



Described from a type male and female, with two other males, 

 from Pundaluoya, Ceylon, April 1SS9 (E. E. Green). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Mr. Edwards says : — " This species seems to be most closely 

 allied to E. morosa, Os. Sac, from which it differs (judging from 

 Osten Sacken's description) in the less intense black colour, in tiie 

 bluish reflections on the legs^ and in the shape of the discal cell ; 

 the 3rd posterior cell is here, as usual, longer than the 2nd." 



391. Eriocera crystalloptera, Os. Sac. 



Eriocera crystalloptera, Osten Sacken, Berl. Ent, Zeits. xxxi, 

 p. i'22 (1887). 



" S ■ Velvet-black, frontal tubercle and humeral callosities 

 reddish ; antennse brown ; abdominal segments, beginning with 

 the 3rd, with broad shining steel-blue cross-bands, occupying 

 nearly the whole basal half of the segments. Wings of a 

 crystalline clearness, with black veins. Legs brown. Length 

 .about 6 millim. 



" Hcd). Kambodde, Ceylon (Nietner) ; Berlin Museum. 



" A single imperfect male specimen." [Osten Saclcen.) 



I have seen no specimen of this species. 



392. Eriocera plumbicincta, Brun. (PI. XI, fig. 16.) 



Eriocera pliwtbicincta,^Bvanett\, Ilec. Ind. Mus.vi, p. 311 (1911). 



S . Head : frons and back of head deep velvet-black, with a 

 little black pubescence ; frons with a cone-like projection above 

 «ach antenna ; eyes black, bare. First joint of scape long, 

 cylindrical, 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, 

 2ud 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 meta- 



