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with microscopic pubescence. Wings dark brown, axillary and 

 spurious cells a little paler ; a clear, irregularly oval spot lying 

 across the basal cells towards their tips, its upper corner just 

 encroaching on the inner marginal cell. Four posterior cells ; 

 anterior and posterior cross- veins placed just before the middle of 

 the cliscal cell. Halteres black. 



Length 12 millim. 



Described from a single female from Ghumti, 4000 ft., Darjiling 

 district, vii.1911 (Gravely}. 



Type in the Indian Museum. 



In my table of species E. niyerrima will be separated from 

 E. aterriina by the clear oval spot in the middle of the wings. 



Eriocera triangularis, sp. nov. 



c? . Head black, with black hairs, the frontal hump fairly con- 

 spicuous. Antennae with six nagellar joints, black, pubescent. 

 Thorax wholly black, with black pubescence ; a little greyish below 

 the shoulders and about the sutures. Scutellum and metanotuin 

 wholly black ; pleurae dark grey. Abdomen black, the 2nd to the 

 5th segments ochraceous yellow, with a triangular black mark on 

 the posterior border of each, the apex reaching to the middle of 

 the segment, from which it is carried anteriorly in a dorsal line or 

 in the form of a row of two or three spots ; the 6th segment a 

 little yellow on each side at the base ; the yellow segments bearing 

 a very narrow lateral black line. Genitalia black. Legs wholly 

 black. Wings wholly coffee-brown, the axillary cell barely lighter. 

 Four posterior cells ; posterior cross -vein beyond the middle of the 

 discal cell. Halteres black. 



Length 21 millim. 



Described from two males in the Indian Museum from the 

 Nilgiri Hills, 6000 ft., v. 1911 (H. L. Andreives). 



In my table of species of Eriocera, this species will come with 

 E. albonotata, Lw., and lestacea, Brim., being distinguished from 

 them by the wholly black legs. 



