Species o/Erioccra in the British Museum. 87 



discal cell ; Cug as long as Cuja, slightly curved ; distance 

 Ax-An on margin about twice An-Cii2. Halleres black. 



Length of body li mm.; wing llx3"3 mm. 



SiAiM : Bukit Besar i^H. C. Robinson and N. Annandale), 

 1 ?. 



11. Eriocera assamensis, sp. n., ? . 



Head dark greyish brown, with rather long and dense 

 black hair. Frontal tubercle moderate, simple. First scapal 

 joint dark greyish brown, four times as long as broad ; second 

 scapal and first three flagellar joints yellow, tip of flagellum 

 dark. Flagellum with nine joints, the last six all rather 

 short. Palpi black, moderately long ; first and fourth joints 

 each a little longer than the second or third, second a little 

 thicker than the others. Thorax velvet-black, pleurae witli 

 a slight brown tinge. Abdomen \e\\Qt-\i\vic\i, without shining 

 areas ; second, fourtli, and fifth tergites with broad whitish- 

 grey basal bauds. Ovipositor reddish, but the segment 

 bearing it black. Legs yellow ; coxse, trochanters, tips of 

 femora and tibiae, and the greater part of the tarsi blackish. 

 Claws simple; em podia short and broad. Wings blackish ; 

 base bright yellow; a broad white fascia in the middle, 

 extending from Rj to the hind margin. Scj extending well 

 beyond the base of Rg ; Scj far before the tip of Scj ; r very 

 oblique, four or five times its length from tip of Rj, its 

 middle joint above the base of Rj ; Rj quite four times as 

 long as R2+3; r-m below base of Rg ; four posterior cells; 

 Cuia near the tip of the rather short discal cell ; Cug curved, 

 shorter than Cuia ; distance Ax-An on the margin not quite 

 twice An-Cuo. Halteres black. 



Length of body 17 mm.; wing 14x42 mm. 



Assam : Khasi Hills (purchased from E. Heyne), 1 ? , 

 taken together with typical specimens of E. nepalensis. 



12. Eriocera sinensis, sp. n., ^ . (Text-fig. 2d.) 

 Head velvet-t)lack, with black hair. Frontal tubercle 

 divided by a transverse furrow, the lower portion somewhat 

 more prominent than "the upper. Scape of antennae black, 

 the first joint about four times as long as broad ; flagellum 

 missing. Falpi black; first and fourth joints slightly 

 longer than the second ;ind third, second distinctly thicker 

 than the others. Thorax velvet-black. Abdomen con- 

 siderably shorter than the wings; velvet-black, the secoiul, 

 fourth, and fifth tergites with broad leaden basal bands, 



