Species o/Eiiocera in the British Museum. 85 



6. Eriocera flavicosta, sp. n., ? . (PI. X. fig. 4.) 



Head black, with black bristlj hair ; frontal tubercle 

 small, divided into two by a transverse furrow. Antennae 

 with the first three flagellar joints light brown, rest black. 

 First scapal joint above three times as long as broad ; 

 fiagellum 8-jointed,tlie joints gradually decreasing in length. 

 Palpi black, rather stout, first joint a little longer than the 

 others, which are all about equal in length. Thorax dull black, 

 without distinct markings; pubescence dark, moderately short 

 and spare. Abdomen with segments 1,5, 6, 7, and sides of 4 

 black ; 2, 3, 8, middle of 4, and ovipositor orange. Legs 

 ochreous-brown ; coxoe, trochanters, tips of femora and tibia?, 

 and terminal tarsal segments black. Claws simple; empodium 

 very short and broad. Wings brown, darker on the apical 

 third; the costal and inner marginal cells yellow; a dis- 

 tinct white spot at the tip, including the tips of Rsand R4_,.5. 

 Sc ending opposite base of E,2 > *' scarcely twice its length 

 from tip of Ri ; Rg a little over twice as long as R2+3 ; 

 r-m below the base of R2 ; Cuia near apex of discal cell ; Cu2 

 short, slightly curved ; distance Ax-An on wing-margin 

 about thi*ee times An-Cuj. Halieres black. 



Length of body 26 mm. ; wing 18 X 5 mm. 



India: Nilgiri Hills, 3000 ft., 21.viii.l888 {Sir G. F. 

 Hampson), 1 ? . 



7. Eriocera kempi, Brun., var. n. longior. 

 (PI. X. fig. 5.) 



Diff'ers f 1 om E. kempi, Brun. (as represented by a paratype 

 in the British Museum), as follows : — r-j?i longer, not shorter 

 than r ; upper of the two veins closing the discal cell half 

 as long as the lower (in E. kempi paratype the upper is 

 obliterated) ; Cuia well before, not at the tip of the discal 

 cell ; no minute clear spot in cell Cu] ; two-thirds of abdo- 

 minal segments 4 and 5 orange, these segments also being 

 longer in proportion to their breadth ; a large orange spot 

 at the base of the sixth tergite ; outer claspers of hypopygium 

 with a deeper preapical notch. 



Length of body 28 mm.; wing 21 x 5 mm. 



LvDiA : Mt. Hamilton, 2 J . 



8. Eriocera ctenophoroides , Edw., var. n. nigrithorax, ? . 



Differs from E. ctenophoroides, Edw., as follows : — First 

 joint of flagellum distinctly longer and more slender, scarcely 

 any thicker than the second joint (in E. ctenophoroides it 

 is distinctly thicker).; thorax and last abdominal segment 



