90 Ml-. F. W. Edwards on the Old- World 



dense black hair ; prsescutum also with long black hair 

 along the furrows. Abdomen : segments 1 and 6-8 entirely 

 velvet-black, 2-5 with yellow ground-colour, dusted' over 

 with grey, more shining basally, apical fifth of each velvet- 

 black. Hypopyijium orange-yellow. Ninth tergite with its 

 middle portion strongly produced, emarginate in the middle, 

 rather densely hairy. Side-pieces about twice as long as' 

 their breadth at the base ; an irregular row of about 20 short 

 blunt spines at the base beneath, not situated on a definite 

 prominence. Outer clasper bare, slightly thickest in the 

 middle, without distinct excavation on outer side near base; 

 preapical notch slight. Inner clasper broad, incompletely 

 separated from the outer. Parameres with a trace of a 

 basal tooth ; long, nearly straight, with rounded tips. Penis 

 with a thick, nearly straight basal portion which is nearly as 

 long as the side-piece, then bent downwards and backwards 

 for about half the* length of the basal portion, then forwards 

 again as a slender bare filament which is nearly as long as 

 the basal portion. Legs : coxaj and trochanters black ; femora 

 yellow with black tips ; tibise brownish with black tips ; 

 tarsi blackish ; claws with small basal tooth ; empodia short. 

 Winys with dark brown ground-colour ; yellow at the base 

 and in the whole of the costal and subcostal cells ; a large 

 nearly square white spot near the tips of the basal cells, 

 extending from Rs to Cu ; a small white spot in the inner 

 marginal cell just above the fork of Rs ; a very small white 

 s|)ot on the extreme tip, just including tips of E,3 and R44.5. 

 Sc ending opposite r ; !Sc2 much before tip of Scj ; >* rather 

 long, vertical, twice its length before tip of R] ; Rg nearly 

 four times as long as R2+3 ; cell M^ present, more than 

 twice as long as its stalk ; Cu^a almost at tip of discal cell ; 

 Cu2 nearly as long as Cuia, slightly curved. Halteres black, 

 tip greyish. 



Length of body 14 mm. ; wing 12*5 x 4 ram. 



Assam : Khasi Hills (purchased from E. IJeyne), 1 S • 



15. Erigcera brunettii, sp. n., ^ . (Text-fig. 2 b.) 



Head very dark ash-grey, pubescence moderate. Frontal 

 tubercle triple, the unpaired dorsal portion very slight 

 indeed. Antennae black ; first scapal joint about three 

 times as long as broad ; flagellum with five joints, each a 

 little shorter than the preceding. Palpi black ; first and 

 fourth joints each about as long as the second and third 

 together ; second a little thicker than the others. Thorax 

 dull orange dorsally, nearly bare ; prrescutum and scutum 



