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398. Eriocera tuberculifera, Ediv. 



Eriocera tuberculifera, Edwards, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist (8) viii. 

 p. 66 (July 1911). 



$ . " Head 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. Abdomen orange ochreous, with a dark lateral line. Legs 

 uniform ochreous. Wings uniform ochreous brown, very like 

 those of the preceding species." * (Edwards.) 



Length\4-l7 millim.( without ovipositor) ; of wing 14-17 millim. 



Described from two females at Pundaluoya, Ceylon (E. E. Green), 

 taken in Nov. 1888 (type) and July 1889. 



Type in the British Museum. 



399. Eriocera albonotata, Lw. 



Limnobia albonotata, Loe\v, in Peters' Naturwiss. Reise nach 

 Mozambique, Zool. v (Insecten) (1862). 



<$ $ . " Head black ; rostrum, palpi, and antennal scapus 

 brown ; flagellum yellowish ; thorax black or deep brown (in the 

 female specimen) ; halteres brown. Legs brownish yellow ; coxae 

 black ; tip of femora, extreme tip of tibiae and the tarsi (especially 

 at the tips of the joints) brown. Abdomen : 1st segment black or 

 brown ; the two ( $ ) or three ( d 1 ) following segments yellow, 

 with a more or less black line along the lateral edge of the 

 segments ; the rest black ; in the female the ovipositor and the 

 segment bearing it are ferruginous. Wings of a rather uniform 

 brown, slightly paler in the axillary and spurious cells ; (in the 

 male specimen the centre of nearly all the cells is a little paler) ; 

 a small white drop near the margin of the wing, between the tips 

 of the 1st and 2nd veins; a similar drop, but much smaller, 

 between the tips of the two branches of the second vein ; an 

 almost semicircular spot, just below the apex of the wing ; on the 

 margin at the distal ends of the second submarginal and of the 

 first posterior cells ; four posterior cells. 



" Length 19-20 millim. ' 



"Hob. Ceylon: rf, Peradeniya, Oct. 10 (Mr. A. Humbert); 

 2 , Cannia, near Trincomalie, July 30. Two specimens, 3 $ , 

 Museum of Geneva. 



" Two specimens from Ceylon in the Berlin Museum (Nietner) 

 agree with the above description exactly, except that the abdomen 

 is of a uniform colour, deep black in one specimen, brown in the 

 other ; I suppose it is merely a variety." (Osten Sacken.) 



From a male and female in the Indian Museum the following 

 notes are drawn up : 



* E. scutellata, Edwards. 



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