in the British Museum.' Bfc>3 



spines are approximately equidistant from one another on 

 all the segments ; flagellar segments increasing in length 

 from the first to the fourth ; in the female, the scapal seg- 

 ments are orange ; flagellum broken. Head orange, darker 

 in the male ; both sexes are provided with a large globular 

 crest, larger and more erect in the male, more proclinate 

 but entire in the female. 



Thorax deep shiny black, very sparsely brownish-pollinose. 

 Pleura similar, sparsely pruinose. Halteres black, the base 

 of the stem paler. Legs with the coxae black, sparsely 

 grey-pruinose ; trochanters brownish black ; remainder of 

 the legs black. Wings with a pale brownish tinge, the 

 costal and subcostal cells dark brown; stigma rather small, 

 dark brown : all the veins conspicuously seamed with brown ; 

 veins dark brown. Venation : r on i? 2 about its own length 

 or a little less beyond the fork of jR 2 +3 ; inner ends of cells 

 i? & and 1st M 2 in alignment ; a spur at the bend of the 

 basal deflection of J7 1+2 ; cell il/, lacking ; cell 15/ M 2 small, 

 a little shorter than Cu x beyond it. 



Abdomen shiny black, the basal segments brownish black. 

 Genital segment and ovipositor horn-coloured, the valves of 

 the latter elongate, the tergal valves slightly upcurved, 

 acute. 



Hab. Nyasaland. 



Holotype, <$ , Mlanje, January 28, 1913 (S. A. Neave). 



Allotopotype, ? , January, February 1914 (Dr. J. B. 

 Davey) . 



Paratopotype, cJ, with the type. 



Presented by the Entomological Research Committee, 

 1913. 236. 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History). 



Eriocera tumidiscapa, sp. u. 



Antennas of the male exceedingly elongate ; general 

 coloration grey, the mesonotal praescutum witli four brown 

 stripes ; femora yellowish, narrowly tipped with brown ; 

 wings snbhyaline, the costal cell pale brown, cell M x lacking. 



Male. — Length 10-12-4 mm. ; wing 14-158 mm. ; 

 antenna 50-52 mm. 



Generally similar to E. nyasicola, differing as follows : — 



Larger ; antennas longer, in the male more than four 

 times the length of the body ; basal segment of the scape 

 more tumid ; vertical crest of the male still larger and more 



