Species o/Eriocera in the British Museum. 87 



discal cell ; Cug as loug as Cuja, slightly cuvved ; distance 

 Ax-An on margin about twice An-Cug. Halteres black. 



Length of body \Ai mm.; wing 11x3-3 mm. 



SiAM : Bukit Besar (/f. C Robinson and A^. Annandale), 



1 ?. 



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



Head dark greyish brown, wdth 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, pleunB with 

 a slight l)rown tinge. Abdomen velvet-black, without shining 

 areas ; second, fourth, and fifth tergites w'ith broad whitish- 

 grey basal bands. Ovipositor reddish, but the segment 

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

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

 Claws simple; empodia 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 R2 ; 802 f^^' before the tip of Scj ; r very 

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

 middle joint above the base of Rg; R2 quite four times as 

 long as R24.3; r-m below base of Rg ; four posterior cells; 

 Cu^a near the tip of the rather short discal cell ; (^Ug curved, 

 shorter than Cu^a ; distance Ax-An on the margin not quite 

 twice An-Cu2. Halteres black. 



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



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

 taken together with typical specimens of E. nepalensis. 



12. Eriocera sinensis, sp. n., J" • (Tt-xt-fig. 2d.) 



Head velvet-black, 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. Palpi black; first and fourth joints slightly 

 longer than the second and third, second distinctly thicker 

 than the others. I'horax velvet-black. Abdomen con- 

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

 fourth, and fifth tergites with broad leaden basal bauds, 



