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vein and extending hindwards to the upper side of the discal cell, 

 thence spreading out and embracing the apical third of that cell, 

 the base of the 2nd posterior, and just entering the 3rd posterior, 

 the colour sharply delimited distally by a line drawn from its 

 costal limit to where it ends posteriorly in the 3rd posterior cell ; 

 a small clear spot at upper corner of 2nd basal cell, with a small 

 yellowish spot immediately above it, and a slight pale yellowish 

 tinge about the middle of the 1st posterior cell; the brown 

 colour is only very slightly variable in its extent. Alulaa and 

 alar squamse with a fringe of dirty brown scales ; halteres black. 



Length, 14-16 mm. 



Eedescribed mainly from a d 1 in good condition in the Indian 

 Museum from Bara Banki, United Provinces, 14. x. 1910, and 

 others in less good condition from Kangra Yallev or Sikkim 

 (Dudgeon) ; Allahabad, i. 1910 (Chatter jee) ; Bandhara, Cent. Prov., 

 India, l.xii.1912 (Imms); Sahibganj, Bengal; Bellary, South India, 

 10. viii.-ll. ix. 1913; Surat, Bombay, 11. xi. 1911 (Fletcher); 

 Bangalore; Trivandrum ; Mahagany, Ceylon, 15. ii. 1891 ; Nila- 

 velli, Ceylon, 30. v. 1891 (Col. Terbury). 



Types in Pabricius's, Westermann's and Wiedemann's collections. 



It must be remembered that the foregoing description is chiefly 

 from an individual specimen. Wiedemann noted the close affinity 

 between collaris and lar, claiming for the former the more fox-red 

 collar, the absence of white tomentum at the tip of the abdomen, 

 the absence of white pubescence towards the sides at the base of 

 the abdomen, the wholly black ground-colour of the body, the 

 black-haired abdomen, and the shortening of the second trans- 

 verse black band (so to speak) on the wing, so that it does not 

 reach the hind border. 



Most of these characters are more or less variable, especially 

 the distance to which the more distal of the two extensions of the 

 costal dark border reaches, and the reddish-brown colour of the 

 sides of the abdomen. Saunders's figure of his rugicollis shows 

 the limits of variation in three characters, the ferruginous collar, 

 the shortened wing-band, and the all-black abdomen. Wiede- 

 mann's characters of the absence of white vestiture at the base 

 and tip of the abdomen are negative ones, and it may reasonably 

 be supposed that his specimen was somewhat worn.* 



Two specimens in the British Museum from Mahagany, Ceylon 

 (Col. Yerbury), appear to represent an undescribed species allied 

 to E. lar, but are not in sufficiently good condition to describe 

 properly. 



One of the specimens bears a label: " ? E. binotata, Macq." 

 This latter I concluded t to be synonymous with collaris, AVied.,J 

 being further convinced by a specimen of the latter in the Indian 



* As the first few examples of this species seen by me answered fully to 

 Wiedemann's collaris, a certain number of specimens wers identified by me as 

 such and returned to correspondents. These should bear the name of lar. 



t Kec. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 444. 



| E. collaris, Wied., is now regarded by me as synonymous with lar, F. 



