Species o/Erlocera in the British Museum. 89 



2-5 ; liypopygium, ovipositor, and the segment bearing the 

 ovipositor orange. Hypopygium : ninth tergite with the 

 central portion strongly produced, but emarginate in 

 the middle. Side-piece less than twice as long as its basal 

 diameter, much narrower apically ; at the base on the 

 ventral side with a rounded prominence bearing a row o£ 

 about 15-20 short spines. Outer clasper bare, with a deep 

 excavation on tlie outer side near the base, preapical notcli 

 small. Inner clasper rather narrow, incompletely separated 

 from the outer. Parameres rather long, straight, with 

 rounded tips, no basal tooth. Penis (if straightened) would 

 be a little longer than the side-pieces, but is bent downwards 

 and backwards about its middle ; both halves are strongly- 

 curved; the outer (ventral) half bears numerous short bristly 

 hairs, which are most dense at the tip ; on the outer side 

 of the bend is a deep groove, tip not much thinner than base. 

 Legs long, slender, black ; claws of the male with basal tooth, 

 not much longer than the narrow empodium ; of the female 

 simple, empodium short and broad. Wings blackish at the 

 extreme base, beyond which rather more than half of the 

 wing is yellow; anal and axillary cells lighter. At the outer 

 edge of the yellow area is a clear whitish spot extending 

 across the basal cells but not reaching Rs or Cu. The apical 

 part of the wing, from the tija of Sc to the tip of Ax, is 

 blackish brown, except for the tip, which is rather broadly 

 pure white. Sc ending opposite r, whicK is about tiiree' 

 times its length from the tip of R^, and not quite its own 

 length from the base of Rg ; R2 more than three times as 

 long as R2+3; r-m below base of Rg; cell INIi present, more 

 than twice as long as its stalk; Cuja close to apex of discal 

 cell ; Cu2 slightly curved. Halteres black. 



Length of body, ^ , 13 mm.; wing, $, 12x3*7 mm. 



Length of body, $ , 21 mm.; wing, $ , 15x5 mm. 



Hong Kong (/. C. Bowring, 1861), 1 c? , 1 ? . 



14. Eriocera pimnbolntea, sp. n., (J. (Text-fig. 2c.) 



Head velvet-black, with long and dense black hair. 

 Frontal tubercle triple, the pair of tubercles above the 

 antennae rather small, but slightly larger than the unpaired 

 and more rounded dorsal tubercle. Antennae with the scajie 

 blackish, first joint about three times as long as broad ; first 

 three flagellar joints yellow (remainder missing). Palpi 

 black (damaged). Thorax entirely velvet-black, except for 

 the prothoracic lobes, which are reddish and rather more 

 prominent than usual. Sides of mesonotum with long and 



