Species o/Eiiocera in the British Musei 



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it is a mere dot, while in three females of the same species 

 it is much larger (in all three it touches the front but not 

 the hind margin of the wing). 



Remarks on various Species. 



1. E. ornata (End.), described from Sumatra, is repre- 

 sented in the British Museum by two males — one from Port 

 Dixon, Malay Peninsula, 19. ii. 1908 (G. Meade-Waldo), and 

 one from Kuching, Sarawak, 21.1.1902 {J. Heivitt). It 

 evidently occupies an isolated position in the genus, but 

 there is no subgeueric name available for it, since Enderleiu 

 designated A. verticale as the type-species of Androclosma. 

 Aj)art from the peculiarities of venation, the parameres of 

 the Eedoeagus (text-tig. 2i) have a unique structure; the free 

 portion is simple, elongate, blunt-ended, and more than half 

 as long as the side-piece. The outer clasper and the penis 

 are constructed somewhat as in the verticalis group, and may 

 perhaps indicate a connection therewith. The length of Rs 

 is variable, being over three times as long as K in the 

 Kuching specimen, rather shorter in the one from Port 

 Dixon, and only twice as long as R in Enderlein's figure. 



Fio-. 1. 



-m, 



]Male genital claspers of species of Eriocera, X 40. 



a, E. brunetti, sp. n. ; b, E. verticalis, Wied. ; c, E. ruhrescens (Walk.) ; 

 d, E. luteipoinis (Edw.). 



2. The Seychelles Species. — The four species described from 

 the Seychelles are evidently quite closely allied, as is shown 

 by the structure of the hypopygium of three of them 

 (H^. obscuripemiis, E. fuscinervis, and E. luteijjennis) (text- 

 figs. Id, 2 n, 2 o). In all these the outer clasper is regularly 

 narrowed towards the tip, which is, however, bent inwards 

 almost at right angles to the shaft; the parameres are bitid, 

 the outer lobe being straight and i)ointed, the inner with a 

 rounded tip ; the penis is small and not distinctly separated 



