3G0 Dr. C. P. Alexander on African Crane-flies 



cell l6f/ M^ moderately small, m less than one-half the outer 

 deflection of il/o ; basal deflection of Cux at from two-thirds 

 to three-quarters the length of cell 1st J/g ; 2ad Anal vein 

 sinuous. 



Abdomen dark brown. Ovipositor with the valves long 

 and slender, the tergal valves gently upcurved before the 

 acute tips ; sternal valves straight and very slender, acicular. 



Hab. Madagascar. 



Holotype, ? , collected by M. D. Couau. B.M. no. 

 80. 45. 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History). 



Tribe H e x a t o m i n i. 

 Genus Eriocera, Macquart. 



Eriocera leonensis, sp. n. 



Antennae short in both sexes ; head orange ; mesouotum 

 brown, the prsescutum with broad, shiny black stripes ; legs 

 black, the bases of the femora obscure yellowish ; wings 

 dark brownish black, cell J/j lacking j abdomen dark brown, 

 the basal two segments orange. 



Male. — Length about 12"5 mm. ; wing 13*6 mm. 



Mouth-parts very small, dark brown. Antennae short in 

 both sexes, dark brown, the segments with numerous, long, 

 scattered verticils. Head orange-red ; vertical tubercle low, 

 distinctly bifid by a shallow V-shaped notch. 



Mesonotum light brown, the pra3scutum with three broad, 

 shiny black stripes that almost obliterate the ground-colour ; 

 scutum light brown, the lateral and anterior parts of the 

 lobes black ; scutellum and postnotum light brownish yellow. 

 Pleura dark brownish black; sides of the mesosteruum 

 paler, llalteres black, the extreme base paler. Legs with 

 the coxa3 black, the outer faces of the middle and hind coxae 

 marked with brown ; trochanters dark brown, the inner 

 faces obscure yellow ; remainder of the legs black, only the 

 basal tourth of the fore femora obscure yellow ; middle and 

 hind legs broken. Wings with a strong, almost uniform, 

 brownish-black suffusion, a little paler in the caudal cells ; 

 veins dark brown. Venation : <S'c ending just beyond the 

 fork of lis, Sc2 a little removed from the tip of Sci, the latter 

 vein alone about equal to ?'-m ; r some distance from the tip 



