Studies on Tipulidae II. 223 
Eriocera albonotata 
Limnobia albonotata Jıoew, Peters’ Reise etc. 1, Tab. I, f. 1, 
A specimen from Ceylon in the Geneva Museum agrees almost 
exactly with Loew’s species, brought from Mozambique. After dra- 
wing the following description of the former, I compared it with 
Loew’s original type in Berlin, and the only difference I found was 
that the two yellow abdominal segments of the type specimen had 
no perceptible lateral black borders. But two other specimens from 
Ceylon in the Berlin Museum have the abdomen unicolorous, and 
seem nevertheless to belong to the same species. I do not hesitate 
therefore to consider the Geneva specimen as specifically identical 
with the african one. 
Head black; rostrum, palpi and antennal scapus brown; flagel- 
lum yellowish; thorax black or deep brown (in the @ specimen); 
halteres brown. Legs brownish-yellow; coxae black; tip of femora, 
extreme tip of tibiae and the tarsi (especially at the tip of the joints) 
brown. Abdomen: first segment black or brown; the two (2) or 
three (&) following segments yellow, with a more or less black line 
along the lateral edge of the segments; the rest black; inthe © the 
ovipositor and the segment bearing it, are ferruginous. Wings of a 
rather uniform brown, slightly paler in the axillary and spurious 
cells; (in & 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 first and second veins; a similar drop, but much 
smaller, between the tips of the two branches of the second vein; 
an almost semieircular spot, just below the apex of the wing, on the 
margin at the discal end of the second submarginal and of the first 
posterior cell; four posterior cells. Length 19—20 mm. 
Hab. Ceylon (2 from Cannia, near Trincomalie, July 30; & 
Peradenia, Oct. 10; Mr. A. Humbert). Two specimens, 5892. Museum 
of Geneva. 
Two speeimens from Ceylon in the Berlin Museum (Nietner) 
agree with the above description exactly, except that the abdomen 
is of a uniform color, deep black in one specimen, brown in the 
other; I suppose it is merely a variety. 
Penthoptera. 
Schiner, Wiener Ent. Mon. VII, 1863. p. 220. 
O. Sacken, Monogr. etc. IV, p. 256. 
I have attempted, in the Monographs, to give a closer definition 
of this genus than Schiner's. In my sense, Penthoptera would 
contain two european and one north-american species. A note which 
