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Geranomyia lachrymalis Alexander. (Plate XXV, fig. 6.) 



Geranomyia lachrymalis Alexander; Transactions of the American Ento- 

 mological Society, vol. 42, pp. 9, 10 (1916). 



The following additional distributional records: 

 Mexico, Cordoba, April 1, 1908 (Knab). 

 Guatemala, Escuintla, November 12, 1902 (Eisen). 

 Costa Rica, Cache, March 3, 1910 (Calvert). 

 Canal Zone, Tabernilla (Busck). 



Geranomyia certhia sp. n. (Extra-limital). 



Rostrum elongate; head dark gray; prsescutum yellow with three 

 dark brown stripes ; legs with the femora and tibiae tipped with dark 

 brown; wings hyaline with a prominent oval stigma; cord and outer 

 end of cell 1st M 2 seamed with pale brown; abdomen brown with 

 two black longitudinal dorsal stripes. 



Male. — Length, excluding the rostrum, 6 mm.; wing, 7 mm.; 

 rostrum, about 5 mm. 



Female. — Length as above, 6.5 mm.; wing, 8.4 mm.; rostrum, about 

 5 mm. 



Rostrum dark brownish black, long and slender, especially toward 

 the tip. Antennas short, black. Head gray, brighter just behind 

 the antennas; vertex dark gray with an impressed black line that is 

 narrowed behind; occiput suffused with dull yellow. 



Mesonotal prsescutum pale buff-yellow with three broad, dark 

 brown stripes, the median one double, ending just before the suture; 

 lateral stripes shorter, crossing the suture and suffusing the scutal 

 lobes; remainder of the scutum buff -yellow; scutellum buff -yellow, 

 a little obscured on either side; postnotum light plumbeous brown 

 with a very delicate impressed median line. Pleura yellow with a 

 sparse pale gray bloom. Halteres yellow, the knobs darker brown. 

 Legs with the coxae and trochanters dull yellow; femora brownish 

 yellow, the tips broadly dark brown; tibiae light brown, the tips 

 narrowly dark brownish black; tarsi brown. Wings hyaline, the 

 stigma prominent, oval, dark brown; cord and outer end of cell 

 1st M 2 narrowly seamed with pale brown; apex of the wing a little 

 darkened; veins dark brown. Venation: Sc long, ending about 

 opposite mid-length of the sector. 



Abdominal tergites dark brown, the segments paler, yellowish, 

 laterally, more blackish sublaterally, forming two dorsal black lines 

 down the abdomen; sternites brownish yellow. 



Habitat. — Guatemala. 



Holotype, cf, Antigua, Guatemala, September, 1902 (Dr. G. Eisen). 



