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notum black , ihe extrême cephalic and caudal portions of the praescutum 

 with a capiliary reddish brown médian vitta; scutellum and the anterior 

 médium area of postnolum conspicuonsly obscure brownish orange; re- 

 mainder of postnotum dark brown. Pleura black, ihe posterior sclerites 

 dark brown. Haltères brownish black , the base of the stem a iittie paler. 

 Legs with the coxae and Irochanters black; only the middle legs présent; 

 femora yeilow, the tips narrowly but conspicuously biaekened; tibiae dark 

 brown, the tips narrowly and indistinctly darker; tarsi dark brown, 

 Wings uniforinly tinged with deep reddish brown; vcins pale brown. 

 Venation : Sci ending opposite the foi'k ofi?2+3; r on R^ approximately two 

 times ils length beyond the fork and on Ri between three and four times 

 its length from the tip; /?'j+3 a little longer than the deflection oï Rii+5; 

 r-m about one-half longer than the deflection of i?i+5; inncr ends of cells 

 R'a and isl M^ about in alignment; celle Mi iacking; basai deflection of 

 Cui at about one-third the length of cell ist M^; C112 about one-half the 

 deflection of Cui. 



Apex of abdomen broken, the intermediate segments broad and flat- 

 tened as in E. lativentris Bezzi; abdominal segments very conspicuously 

 colored, being briliiant orange-yelIoAV, each Avith about the caudal half 

 brownish black, sending a conspicuous médian stem to the anterior 

 margin of the segment restricting the orange color to the anterior latéral 

 margins of the segments. 



Habitat. — Southeast China. 



Holotype, Sex?, Province of Kiang-si, 1875 (Père David). 



Paratopotype , d*. 



Type in the collection of the Paris National Muséum. 



Eriocera abdominalis is a very conspicuous fly. By Edward's key to 

 tjie Old World species of Eriocera (1991), it runs out at couplet 54. 



SuBFAiin.Y tiplliiv.iî;. 



Tribe TIPULINI. 

 Genus Pfselliophora Osten Sacken. 



Pselliophora cavalerie! nov. sp. 



General coloration black; basai four abdominal segments orange; wings 

 with a faint brownish tinge; cell istRi, the cells beyond the cord and 

 celi 2nd A paler; stigma and a faint seam al r-m dark brown; maie hypo- 



