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distinct stigmal spot; femora dark brown before the tip, tibiae black 

 at the tip. 



Mule. — Length, excluding the rostrum, about 6.5 mm.; wing, 

 6.6 mm.; rostrum, about 2.5 nun. 



Female. — Length as above, about 5 mm.; wing, 6 mm.; rostrum, 

 about 1.8 mm. 



Rostrum moderate in length, brownish yellow, darker towards 

 the tip. Antemue with the first segment brownish yellow, the 

 remainder of the antenna? dark brownish black; flagellar segments 

 short-oval. Head light gray, more yellowish behind. 



Thorax reddish brown without distinct stripes or markings of any 

 kind, the scutellum a little more yellow. Pleura pale reddish brown 

 with a very sparse grayish bloom. Halteres short, pale yellow, the 

 knobs a little darker. Legs with the coxae reddish; trochanters dull 

 yellow; femora dull yellow with a broad brownish annulus 

 immediately before the tip; tibiae brownish yellow, the extreme tip 

 black; tarsi yellowish brown, the apical segments darker. Wings 

 nearly hyaline; stigma indistinct; veins dark brown, C, Sc and Cu 

 a little more yellowish. Venation: Sc long, extending over one-half 

 the length of the radial sector. 



Abdominal tergites dull yellow with a narrow, poorly indicated, 

 brown sublateral line; sternites yellowish, on the terminal segments 

 more reddish. 



The female is quite similar to the male,, but smaller with a still 

 shorter rostrum that is not so noticeably pallid basally; abdominal 

 tergites brown, the last tergite more yellowish. 



Habitat. — Southeastern United States. 



Holotype, cf, Braidentown, Manatee County, Florida, March 

 (M. C. VanDuzee). 



Allotype, 9 , with the type. 



Paratopotypes, 2 d 1 9 . 



The type is in the collection of Mr. Van Duzee, to whom the 

 species is respectfully dedicated. 



In its unmarked thorax this species runs closest to G. distincta 

 which has a longer rostrum and lacks the dark markings on the 

 femora and the black apices to the tibiae. 



Geranomyia intermedia Walker. (Plate XXV, fig. 3.) 



Limnobia intermedia Walker; List Diptera British Museum, vol. 1, p. 47 

 (1848). 



The following specimens are at hand: 



A 9 , Kingston, Jamaica, February 10, 1903 (M. Grabham), a 9 T 



