in the British Museum. 363 



spines are approximately equidistant from one anotlier on 

 all the segments ; flagellar segments increasing in length 

 from the first to the fourth ; in the female, the scapal seg- 

 ments are orange; flagellum broken. Head orange, darker 

 in the male ; both sexes are provided Avith a large globular 

 crest, larger and more erect in the male, more proclinate 

 but entire in the female. 



Thorax deep shiny black, very sparsely brownish-poUinose. 

 Pleura similar, sparsely pruinose. Halteres black, the base 

 of the stem paler. Legs with the coxae black, sparsely 

 grey-pruinose ; trochanters brownish black ; remainder of 

 the legs black. Wings with a pale brownish tinge, the 

 costal and subcostal cells dark brown ; stigma rather small, 

 dark brown ; all the veins conspicuously seamed with brown ; 

 veins dark brown. Venation : r on R2 about its own length 

 or a little less beyond the fork of i?2+3 j inner ends of cells 

 i?6 and ]si M2 in alignment ; a spur at the bend of tlie 

 basal deflection of J7i^2 j cell il/j lacking ; cell 1^/ Mo small, 

 a little shorier than C'wi beyond it. 



Abdomen shiny black, the basal segments brownish black. 

 Genital segment and ovipositor horn-coloured, the valves of 

 the latter elongate, the tergal valves slightly upcurved, 

 acute. 



Had. Nyasaland. 



Holut]/pe, ^ , Mlanje, January 28, 1913 (S. A. Neave). 



Allotojjoti/pe, ? , January, February 1914 [Dr. J. B. 

 Duvey) . 



Paratopotype, ($ , with the type. 



Presented by the Entomological Research Committee, 

 1913. 236. 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History) . 



Eriocera tumidiscapa, sp. n. 



Antennae of tlie male exceedingly elongate ; general 

 coloration grey, the mesonotal pr?cscutum with four brown 

 stripes ; femora yellowish, narrowly tippi'd with Ijrown ; 

 wings subhyaline, the costal cell pale brown, cell Mi lacking. 



Male. — Length 10-12*4 mm. ; wing 14-15'8 mm. ; 

 antenna 50-52 mm. 



Generally similar to E. nyasicola, diflering as follows : — 



Larger ; antennpc longer, in the male more tiian four 

 times the length of the body ; basal segment of the scape 

 more tumid ; vertical crest of the male still larger and more 



