66 On some Tipuliclfe /rom Ceylon. 



Head orange, darker brown behind the eyes, dark-haired. 

 Front with two prominent tubercles. Scape of antennae 

 dark brown ; flagelhim ochreous, blackish towards the tip. 

 Thorax ferruginous orange ; mesonotum W'ith three longi- 

 tudinal black-brown stripes ; the median one is narrowed 

 behind and extends almost back to the suture, where it is 

 seen to be double; the lateral stripes broaden out behind 

 the suture and extend as far as the scutellum. Scutellura 

 orange-yellow. Metanotum dark brown. Legs: femora 

 ochreous with blackish tips ; tibiae and tarsi blackish, tibiae 

 more ochi-eous towards the base. Wings a uniform ochreous 

 brown. In the female the discal cell of one wing is open. 

 Halteres brownish. Abdomen in male deep orange, first 

 segment brown, segments 2-4 with black lateral borders, 

 segments 5-7 all black except for a narrow apical orange 

 border; in female lighter orange with a black lateral line. 



Length of body, c? 18 mm., ? 15 mm. ; wing, (^ 24 mm., 

 $ 16 mm, 



Hab. Pundaluoya, 1 ^ , Sept. 1892, and 1 ? , Oct. 1897 

 (E. E. Green). 



There is little doubt that the two specimens belong to the 

 same species, though they differ in the colour of the abdomen 

 and the length of the wing. 



]5. Eriocera tubercuUfera, sp. n. 



Lutea, tborace antice flavo, postice fiisco ; alis brunneis non 

 maculatis ; pedibus luteis ; fronte trituberculata. 



Jlead 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. Legs uniform 

 ochreous. Wings uniform ochreous brown, very like those 

 of the preceding species. Halteres dark fuscous. Abdomen 

 orange ochreous, with a dark lateral line. 



Length of body 14-17 mm. (without ovipositor) ; wing 

 14-17 mm. 



Hab. Puudaluova, type ? , Nov. 1888, one other $ , July 

 1889 [E. E. Green). 



16. Eriocera fusca, sp. n. 

 Fusca, pedibus subcyaneis, alis non maculatis. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen nearly uniform dingy fuscous. 



