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male immediately behind the antennal bases with a very 

 large globular crest. 



Thorax dark brownish black throughout ; in the female, 

 the scutellum grey-pruinrise. Hal teres dark brown. Legs 

 with the coxae and trochanters brownish black ; remainder 

 of the legs dark brown. Wings subhyaline ; stigma brown ; 

 veins dark brown. Venation : Rs long, gently arcuated ; 

 R 2+ z long, almost straight; r on R 2+3 a variable distance 

 before the fork, from about one-half to about twice its own 

 length ; cell R 2 small ; cell M x lacking ; cell 1st M 2 closed ; 

 basal deflection of Cu x at, or a short distance beyond, the 

 fork of M. 



Abdomen dark brownish black. Ovipositor with the 

 valves blunt and fleshy as in E. lonyicornis Walker (eastern 

 North America). 



Hab. Northern Nigeria, Nyasaland. 



Hulotype, $ , Zungeru, N. Nigeria, November 1910 (Dr. 

 J. W. Scott -Macfie). B.M. no. 1911. 417. 



Allotojwtype, ? , October 27, 1910. B.M. no. 1912. 119. 



Paratype, ? , Mlanje, Nyasaland, April 5, 191.3 (S. A. 

 Neave). B.M. no. 1913. 140. 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History). 



Eriocera pusilla is the smallest species of the genus known 

 to the writer. No decisive differences are apparent between 

 the specimens from Nigeria and that from Nyasaland. 



Eriocera nyasicola, sp. n. 



Antennae of the male elongated ; head obscure reddish ; 

 general coloration shiny black ; legs black ; wings pale 

 brown, the costal margin dark brown ; veins seamed with 

 brown, cell M x lacking. 



Male. — Length about 11 mm. ; wing 13*6 mm. ; antenna 

 about 33 mm. 



Female. — Length 15*8 mm.; wing ll'l mm. 



Rostrum and palpi dark brown, the basal segments of the 

 latter lighter-coloured in the female. Antenna? of the male 

 very long, approximately three times the length of the body, 

 the third flagellar segment (8'5 mm.) equal to the combined 

 thorax and abdomen ; antenme with the scapal segments 

 deep wine-brown ; flagellum black, the flagellar segments 

 provided with rows of slender bristle-like spines that become 

 even more slender, hair-like, on the last segment ; these 



