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cell 1st M 2 moderately small, m less than one-half the outer 

 deflection of M 3 ; basal deflection of Cu^ at from two-thirds 

 to three-quarters the length of cell 1st M 2 ; 2nd Anal vein 

 sinuous. 



Abdomen dark brown. Ovipositor with the valves long 

 and slender, the tergal valves gently upcurved before the 

 acute tips ; sternal valves straight and very slender, acicular. 



Hub. Madagascar. 



Holotype, $ , collected by M. D. Cowan. B.M. no. 

 80. 45. 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History). 



Tribe Hexatomini. 

 Genus Eriocera, Macquart. 



Eriocera leonensis, sp. n. 



Antennae short in both sexes ; head orange ; mesonotum 

 brown, the prsescuturn with broad, shiny black stripes ; legs 

 black, the bases of the femora obscure yellowish ; wings 

 dark brownish black, cell J/j lacking ; abdomen dark brown, 

 the basal two segments orange. 



Male. — Length about 125 mm. ; wing 13*6 mm. 



Mouth-parts very small, dark brown. Antennas short in 

 both sexes, dark brown, the segments with numerous, long, 

 scattered verticils. Head orange-red ; vertical tubercle low, 

 distinctly bifid by a shallow V-shaped notch. 



Mesonotum light brown, the prsescutuni with three broad, 

 shiny black stripes that almost obliterate the ground-colour ; 

 scutum light brown, the lateral and anterior parts of the 

 lobes black ; scutellum and postnotum light brownish yellow. 

 Pleura dark brownish black ; sides of the mesosternum 

 paler. Halteres black, the extreme base paler. Legs with 

 the coxae black, the outer faces of the middle and hind coxae 

 marked with brown ; trochanters dark brown, the inner 

 faces obscure yellow ; remainder of the legs black, only the 

 basal fourth of the fore femora obscure yellow ; middle and 

 hind legs broken. Wings with a strong, almost uniform, 

 brownish-black suffusion, a little paler in the caudal cells ; 

 veins dark brown. Venation : Sc ending just beyond the 

 fork of Us, Sc 2 a little removed from the tip of Sc u the latter 

 vein alone about equal to r-m ; r some distance from the tip 



