EEIOCEEA. 535 



dirty orange colour. Abdomen black, with a steely lustre when 

 viewed from behind ; posterior margins of segments with a velvet- 

 black border. Belly dull black, bases of segments steely. Genital 

 organs of male rather small, dark brown, shortly pubescent, an 

 upper narrow plate, a normal pair of claspers, with some inter- 

 mediate appendages. Ovipositor normal, blackish, terminal valves 

 reddish yellow. Legs : coxa3 bright reddish orange ; remainder of 

 the legs brownisb yellow, with distinct close black pubescence ; 

 tips of femora and tibiae narrowly black : tarsi darker. Winys 

 dark brown. Auxiliary vein ending opposite the base of the 

 1st submarginal cell ; the 2nd longitudinal vein begins much 

 before the middle of the wing, the prtefurca forming nearly half 

 the length of the vein ; the vein forking opposite the anterior 

 cross-vein, the branches diverging rather widely ; the 2nd mar- 

 ginal cell is thus considerably longer than the 1st, and widens 

 considerably towards the tip ; the marginal cross-vein situated 

 beyond two-thirds of the marginal cell and beyond the forking of 

 the 2nd vein ; basal section of the 3rd vein nearly in a line with 

 the praefurca, two and a half times as long as the anterior cross- 

 vein ; discal cell nearly rhomboidal, equal to the 2nd and 3rd 

 posterior cells ; posterior cross-vein placed nearly at the tip of the 

 discal cell. A clear elongate spot in the marginal cell between 

 the marginal cross-vein and the costa ; a very minute clear spot 

 in the 1st submarginal cell near the margin, and a semicircular 

 larger clear spot on the wing-margin, spreading over the 2nd 

 submarginal and 1st posterior cells. Halteres black. 



Length 17 millim. 



Described from a single male sent me by Mr. E. E. Green, 

 taken at Kandy, October 1907, and one male and two females 

 collected by the same gentleman, August 1906 and September 

 1902. 



Types in the Indian Museum. 



Very near E. plecioides, Walk. ; but that author does not, in his 

 "description" of one and a half lines, mention the steely lustre 

 of the abdomen (which he characterises as deep black, the wings 

 being also blackish in his species), the yellowish legs, or the 

 clear spots in the wings. It seems therefore justifiable to con- 

 clude that the present species is not identical with his. Walker 

 describes E. plecioides from Singapore. 



381. Eriocera fenestrata, Brun. (PL XI, figs. 14, 15.) 



Eriocer a fern-strata, Brunetti, Kec. Ind. Mus. vi, p. 312 (1911). 

 Head : frons broad, flat, dull black with sparse hairs ; ocellar 

 triangle small; proboscis, antennae and palpi dark brown. Thorax: 

 dorsum orange-red, not shining, the colour at the sides sharply 

 ending on a level with the wing-roots, but gradually becoming 

 bright oranjre on scutellum and rnetanotum ; pleurae semitranslucid 

 brown, slightly tinged with orange. Abdomen with the basal half 

 of each segment sublucid leaden grey, shining, posterior half dead 



