314 Dr. C. P. Alexander on 



the anterior part of vertex behind the antennal bases, sub- 

 tended by a pale mark adjoining the inner margin of eyes; 

 gense dark brown. 



Pronotum prominent, brown, the scutellum sparsely 

 prninose. Mesonotal prajscutum buffy yellow, clearer 

 anteriorly, and here bisected by a capillary dark l)rown line ; 

 three brown stiipes, the median one broadly divided and 

 indicated only posteriorly, the anterior half replaced by 

 yellow ; lateral stripes broad ; pseudosutural fovese con- 

 spicuous, bicolorous ; scutum lu'own, the centres of the 

 lobes darker brown; an indistinct, capillary, brown median 

 line on the scutellum and postnotuin. Pleura brownish 

 testaceous, the dorsal margin of the pleurites narrowly 

 darkened; area surrounding base of halteres pruinose. 

 Halteres brown, the knobs dark brown, base of the stem 

 yellow. Legs with the cox?e and trochanters relatively 

 small, reddisli brown; femora obscure yellow, becoming 

 clearer yellow before the conspicuous dark brown tips ; 

 tibiae obscure yellow, the tips narrowly and indistinctly 

 darkened; tarsi obscure yellow; legs hairy; metatarsi 

 unarmed at base ; hind tarsi short. Wings brownish yellow, 

 the costal and subcostal cells light yellowish brown; con- 

 spicuous and extensive brown clouds and w^ashes on the 

 wing-disk ; washes in the bases of cells R and M and on the 

 basal half of cell R^ ; large and conspicuous dark brown 

 clouds at the origin of Rs, at Sc^., and at r ; paler but exten- 

 sive clouds along the cord, at the end of vein R^, along the 

 longitudinal veins, and as a conspicuous blotch beyond mid- 

 length of vein 1^^ A in cell \st A. Venation : Fnsion of 

 C'mi and M^ extensive, longer than the outer deflection 

 of M^ alone. The right wing of the type has an irregular 

 cross-nervure extending across the base of cell M-^ from vein 

 Ms to Cu^. 



Abdominal tergites bright fulvous-yellow, the tergites 

 narrowly trilineate with dark brown ; lateral stripes also 

 including dorsal margins of sternites; sternites obscure 

 yellow with an interrupted, paler brown, median stripe. 



Hub. Cameroun. 



Holotype, ?, Lolodorf, February 27, 1914 {A. I. Good). 

 Carnegie Museum, Accession No. 5264. 



Type in the collection of the Carnegie Museum. 



Lecteria vasta is the largest member of the tribe Erio- 

 pterini as yet made known. In the other species of the 

 africana group in which both sexes are known [africana, 

 k\c\di\\Aev,atricauda^ Alexander, pluriguttata, Alexander) the 



