in the British Museum. 29 



Erioptera (Ej'ioptera) carissima nitidivscula, subsp. n. 



Female. — Length 61 mm. ; wing 5'5 mm. 



Very similar to typical carissima, differing as follo^vs : 

 The entire thoracic dorsum and |)l.'ura is a deep brownish 

 l)lack, with a lijiht yellow area on the mesepisternnm as 

 described under the typical form. The dark \viiig-|)atterii 

 is more extensive, all three bands being connecteil with one 

 another in the cubital ceils of the wing, the t)and beyond 

 the cord suffusing the entire wing-apex, excepting a narrow 

 delicate margin at the extreme tip. Al)domen dark brovv!\, 

 only the base§ of the segments indistinctly paler; genital 

 segments and valves of the ovipositor reddish horn-colour, 

 as in the typical form. 



[lab. British East Africa. 



Hulotype, $ , Mumias District, north and south banks of 

 the Nzoia River, North Kaviorouda, September 2, 1911 

 (C. W. Woodhuuse) ; on self. 



Presented by the Entomological Research Committee, 

 1912. 190. 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History). 



Erioptera subirrorata, sp. n." 



General coloration pale greyish brown, the dorsal pleural 

 sclerites of the thorax rather darker ; hal teres with the 

 knoi)s pale ; legs with the femora yellowish, the tibise more 

 brownish ; wings faintly bro^vnish yellow, the outer costal 

 margin more sutfused, the veins beyond the cord faintly 

 irrorate with pale brown dots; cell 1st Mo clo-ed, 2nd Anal 

 vein sinuate. 



Sex? — Wing 6-3 mm. 



Rostrum and the rather large palpi brown. Antennre 

 with the scapal segments brown, the flagellum broken. 

 Head dull yellow, the vertex whitish- pi uinose. 



Mesonotum pale greyish brown, the lateriil margins of 

 the prsescutum paler; tuberculate pits separated by a 

 distance that is about equal to three t mes the diameter of 

 one, located immediately cephalad of the level of the nearly 

 transverse pseudosutural fovete. Pleura dull yellow, the 

 dorsal sclerites broadly but somewhat indistinctly infuscatc d 

 to produce a dorsal stipe. Haltcrt's brown, the knoljs large, 

 light brownish yellow. Legs with the coxa? and troclianters 

 light yellow ; femora yellow ; tibite and tarsi brown, the 

 distal segments of the latter darker brown. Wings with 

 a faint br(;wnish-yellow sufi'usion, the ec^stal margin between 



