362 i)i-. C. P. Alexiinder on African Crane-flies 



male immediately behind tLe anteimal bases witli a very 

 large globular crest. 



Thorax dark brownish black throughout ; in the female, 

 the scutellum grey-pruiuose. Halteres dark brown. Legs 

 with the coxse and trochanters brownish black ; remainder 

 ot" tlie legs dark brown. Wings subhyaline ; stigma brown ; 

 veins dark brown. Venation : Rs long, gently arcuated ; 

 Z{2+3 long, almost straight; r on R2+Z a variable distance 

 belore the fork, from about one-half to about twice its own 

 length ; cell jRo small ; ceil Mi lacking ; cell \st M^ closed ; 

 basal detlection of 6'«i at, or a short distance beyond, the 

 fork of M. 



Abdomen dark brownish black. Ovipositor wiih the 

 valves blunt and rieshy as in E. longicornis Walker (ea-stern 

 North America). 



Hub. Northern Nigeria, Nyasaland. 



Hulotype, (^ , Zungeru, N. Nigeria, November 1910 {Dr. 

 J. W. IScott-Macfie). B.M. no. 1911. 417. 



Allot ojwtype, ? , October 27, 1910. B.M. no. 1912. 119. 



Faratj/pe, ? , Mlanje, Nyasaland, April 5, 191<3 (-S'. A. 

 Neave). B.M. no. 1913. »40. 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History). 



Eriocera pusilla is the smallest species of the genus known 

 to the writer. No decisive diti'erencts are appareut between 

 the specimens from Nigeria and that from Nyasaland. 



Eriocera iiyasicola, sp. u« 



Antennae of the male elongated ; head obscure reddish ; 

 general coloration shiny black ; legs black ; wings pale 

 brown, the costal margin dark brown ; veins seamed with 

 brown, cell Mi lacking. 



ilfa/e.— Length about 11 mm. ; wing 13*6 mm. ; antenna 

 about 33 mm. 



Female. — Length 15*8 mm. ; wing 14<*4 mm. 



nostrum and palpi dark brown, the basal segments of the 

 latter lighter-coloured in the female. Antennae of the male 

 very long, approximately three times the length of the body, 

 the third tiagellar segment (8'5 mm.) equal to the combined 

 thorax and abdomen ; auteunse with the scapal segments 

 deep wine-brown ; tlagellum black, the flagellar segments 

 provided with rows of slender bristle-like spines that become 

 even more slender, hair-like, on the last segment; these 



