548 TiruLiD.E. 



Lengtlil'J milliin. (+3 mm. ovipositor in female). Head blackish 

 grey, frons forming one-third the width of the head, moderately 

 prominent; palpi black. Antennal scape black, iiiid joint very 

 short, flagellum reddish yellow each of the first two joints about 

 as long as the 1st scapal joint, the four remaiuiug joints shorter. 

 Thorax wholly deep black. Abdomen mainly black, flattened, 

 considerably widened towards, but not actually at, the tip ; 2nd 

 and ;3rd segments {6 2) bright leuiou-\ ellow, 4th yellow, with 

 narrow posterior black border ( c? ) or mainly yellowish about its 

 dorsum ( § ) ; rest of dorsum black, except that in the male the 

 base of the 5th segment is a little yellowish ; a very narrow black 

 line along the sides of the two yellow segments, which are also 

 wholly yellow on the underside; rest of belly black. Ovipositor 

 black at base, rest reddish yellow ; upper valves much the longer. 

 Legs w ith coxae black, femora and tibiae brownish yellow, both 

 with a very narrow black apical riug ; tarsi black. Wings dark 

 brown ; a small semicircular white spot over tip of 3rd vein ; a 

 much smaller one towards tips of both marginal and 1st sub- 

 marginal cells, the latter one very minute. Posterior cross-vein 

 nearly at the end of the discal cell in one wing and exactly in a 

 line with its base in the other. 



The two specimens from Maskeliya^ Ceylon {E. E. Green). 



400. Eriocera testacea, sp. nov. 



5 . This species, although tiiifering from E. tenuis in general 

 appearance, is difficult to differentiate in detail from it, and as it 

 was taken in the same locality and month by the same collector, 

 it may possibly be the female of that species. The antennal 

 flagelluui is pale yellow ; the thorax is black, more dusted with 

 grey at the sides; the scutellum and metanotum grey. The 1st 

 abdominal segment is black, the remainder brownish, the tip 

 blackish, the ovipositor reddish brown. The legs as in E. tenuis, 

 but paler yellow. The wings coffee-brown ; the venation identical, 

 but no apical white spot, and the centres of most of the cells on 

 the posterior half of the wing are rather clearer. 



Length 24 millim. to tip of ovipositor. 



One female in the Indian Museum from the Nilgiri Hills, 

 iv. 1910 {U. L. Andreives). 



