ERIOCERA. 547 



398. Eriocera tuberculifera, Edw. 



Eriocera tuherculifera, Edwards, Ann. Ma,o-. Nat. Hist. (8) viii 

 p. 66 (July 1911). 



$ . " Head orange yellow. Front with a pair of very prominent 

 tubercles just above the antennae, and above these with a smaller 

 median tubercle. Antennae with the basal half ochreous yellow, 

 the apical half dark fuscous. Thorax fuscous brown ; mesonotum 

 yellow in front, the yellow colour not extending as far back as the 

 suture. Abdomen orange ochreous, with a dark lateral line. Leqs 

 uniform ochreous. Wings uniform ochreous brown, very like 

 those of the preceding species." * {Edwards.) 



Lengthl4:-17 millim. (without ovipositor); of wing 14-17 millim. 



Described from two females at Pundaluoya, Ceylon (E. E. Green), 

 taken in Nov. 1888 (t'/pe) and July 1889. 



Type in the British Museum. 



399. Eriocera albonotata, Ltv. 



Lhuiiohia albonotata, Loew, in Peters' Naturwiss. Eeise nach 

 Mozambique, Zuol. v (Insecten) (1862). 



cT 2 . " Head black ; rostrum, palpi, and antennal scapus 

 brown ; flagellum yellowish ; thorax black or deep brown (in the 

 female specimen) ; halteres brown. Legs brownish yellow ; cox« 

 black ; tip of femora, extreme tip of tibiae and the tarsi (especially 

 at the tips of the joints) brown. Abdomen : 1st segment black or 

 brown ; the two ( $ ) or three ( c^ ) following segments yellow, 

 with a more or less black line along the lateral edge of the 

 segments ; the rest black ; in the female the ovipositor and the 

 segment bearing it are ferruginous. Wings of a rather uniform 

 brown, slightly paler in the axillary and spurious cells ; (in the 

 male specimen the centre of nearly all the cells is a little paler) ; 

 a small white drop near the margin of the wing, between the tips 

 of the 1st and 2nd veins; a similar drop, but much smaller, 

 between the tips of the two branches of the second vein ; an 

 almost semicircular spot, just below the apex of the wing ; on the 

 margin at the distal ends of the second submarginal and of the 

 first posterior cells : four posterior cells. 



" Length 19-20 millim. ' 



"Hab. Ceylon: J, Peradeniya, Oct. 10 (Mr. A. Humbert); 

 2 , Cannia, near Trincomalie, July 30. Two specimens, d $ , 

 Museum of Geneva. 



" Two specimens from Ceylon in the Berlin Museum {Nietner) 

 agree with the above description exactly, except that the abdomen 

 is of a uniform colour, deep black in one specimen, brown in the 

 other ; I suppose it is merely a variety." {Osten SacJcen.) 



Prom a male and female in the Indian Museum the following 

 notes are drawn up : — 



* E. scutellata, Edwards. 



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