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with microscopic pubescence. Wiiirjs dark brown, axillary and 

 spurious cells a little paler ; a clear, irregularly oval spot lying 

 across the basal cells towards their tips, its upper corner just 

 encroaching on the inner marginal cell. Pour posterior cells ; 

 anterior and posterior cross-veins placed just before the middle of 

 the discal cell. Halteres black. 



Lewjtli 12 millim. 



Described from a single female from Ghumti, 4000 ft., Darjiling 

 district, vii. 1911 {Gravely). 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



In my table of species E. nigerrima will be separated from 

 E. aterriijia by the clear oval spot in tlie middle of the wings. 



Eriocera triangularis, sp. nov. 



(S . Head black, with black hairs, the frontal hump fairly con- 

 spicuous. Antennae with six tlagellar joints, black, ])ubescent. 

 Thorax wholly black, with black pubescence ; a little greyish below 

 the shoulders and about the sutures. JScutellum and metanotum 

 wholly black ; pleurae dark grey. Ahdomen black, the 2nd to the 

 5th segments ochraceous yelloM', with a triangular black mark on 

 the posterior border of each, the apex reaching to the middle of 

 the segment, from which it is carried anteriorly in a dorsal line or 

 in the form of a row of two or three spots; the 6th segment a 

 little yellow on each side at the base ; the yellow segments bearing 

 a very narrow lateral black line. (Genitalia black, if//* wholly 

 black. Wbujs w holly coffee-brown, the axillary cell barely lighter. 

 Tour posterior cells ; posterior cross -vein beyond the middle of the 

 discal cell. Halteres black. 



Length 21 millim. 



Described from two males in the Indian Musenm from the 

 Nilgiri Hills, 6000 ft., v. 3 911 (//. L. Andretves). 



In my table of species of Eriocera, this species will come with 

 E. alhonotata, Lw., and testacea, Brim., being distinguished from 

 them by the wholly black legs. 



