Species oj Erioceia in the British Museum. 83 



3. Eriocera waterstoni, sp. ii., $ . 



Head blackish grey, duU^ nearly bare ; frontal tubercle 

 small but distinct, simple. Scape of antennse black, the fiist 

 joint a little over twice as long as broad; flagellum missin^-. 

 Palpi black ; second joint swollen but elongate, much 

 longer than the first or third, and a little longer even than 

 the fourth. Thorax dull blackish grey ; a whitish line on 

 the extreme margin of the mesonotum ; above this, just in 

 front of the wing-base, a short velvet-black stripe. Upper 

 half of the pleurse deep black, shining except in places ; 

 lower half heavily dusted with whitish grey. Abdomen 

 black, somewhat shining ; ovipositor slender, reddish. Legs: 

 front coxaj blackish, the others ochreous, all grey-dusted ; 

 trochanters ochreous ; remainder of legs missing. Wings 

 uniformly blackish. Venation like that of E. chirothecuta 

 (as figured by Kuntze, 1913), except that Cuia is hardly 

 beyond the middle of the discal cell, and the distance 

 between the tips of Ax and An is over twice that between 

 An and Cuj. Halteres black. 



Length of hody 13 mm. ; Aving 12x3"2 mm. 



Macedonia : Rendino Gorge, vi. 1918 (^Capt. J. 

 JIaterston). 



The venation is very similar to that of E. schnusei, 

 Kuntze; probably, as in that species, the tarsi are dark, but 

 confirmation of this point is required. 



4. Eriocera umbripennis, sp. n., ? . (PI. X. fig. 2.) 



Head black, with some rather long black bristly hair ; 

 frontal tubercle rather small, triple, a single conically pro- 

 duced u])])er division, two more rounded tubercles just above 

 base of antennae. Antennae Idack, slightly longer than the 

 thorax ; first scapal joint about three times as long as broad ; 

 flagellum with the first four joints distinct, gradually dimin- 

 ishing in length ; terminal portion scarcely equalling the 

 })receding three joints together. Palpi with the four joints 

 about equal in length, each roughly four times as long as 

 broad. Thoraw purplish black; piaESCutum with five deeper 

 i)lack stripes, the three njiddle ones narrow ; pubescence 

 black, rather spare and short. Abdomen with the four basal 

 segments dull orange, the rest velvet-black ; valves of the 

 ovipositor elongate, slender, reddish. Legs: coxae, tio- 

 chanters, and middle femora black (rest missing). Wings 

 uniformly black. Sci ending opposite r; Scj o})])osite base 

 of R.3 ; r more than three times its length from tip of R^ ; 



