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Holotype, $ , Coroico, Bolivia. 



Allotype, $ , with the type. 



Paratypes, 40 S $ , Bartica, Brit. Guiana (H. S. Parish, 

 coil.). 



Types in the Hungarian National Museum ; paratypes in au- 

 thor's collection. 



G. cinereinota is allied to divcrsa O. S. of the Eastern U. S., 

 hut has a long Sc., and a different thoracic- and wing-pat- 

 tern. 



Geranomyia scolopax, sp. n. 



Rostrum short, barely exceeding the antennse in length ; thoracic no- 

 tum greyish brown with dark brown stripes ; legs uniform ; wings hya- 

 line with three brown costal spots. 



Male. Length, 5.3 mm. ; wing, 7 mm. 



Proboscis short, scarcely longer than the antennae, dark brown; an- 

 tennae dark brownish black ; head grey. 



Mesothoracic prsescutum greyish brown, with an ill-defined, darker 

 median stripe and the lateral margin of the sclerite dark brown, this 

 color being the continuation of the dark propleurse, scutum dark 

 brown; scutellum and postnotum a little lighter. Pleurae light brown 

 with a broad greyish brown band extending the length of the thorax 

 above the base of the halteres and below the wing root, becoming con- 

 fluent with the postnotum. Halteres pale, the knob a little brown. 



Legs, cox?e and trochanters yellow, fore femora dull yellow, tibiae 

 and tarsi brown; middle and hind legs brown excepting the coxae and 

 trochanters which are yellow. 



Wings hyaline, or nearly so, with a distinct oval, brown stigma, a 

 brown cloud at the fork of Sc including the base of Rs. cell Sc with a 

 brown cloud at one-half its length. Venation: Sc rather short, end- 

 ing a little beyond the origin of Rs; Sc2 at the tip of Sci ; basal deflec- 

 tion of Cm at the fork of M. 



Abdominal tergites rich brown, the extreme base of each segment 

 pale; the lateral edge and an indistinct median vitta brown; sternites 

 brown. 



Holotype, $ , Callanga, Peru, in the Hungarian National 

 Museum. 



Closest to cinereinota, sp. n., but with distinct spots on the 

 wing and with the median praescutal stripe ill-defined. 



Genus Peripheroptcra Schiner. 



1866. Peripheroptcra Schiner; Verh. Zool. bot. ges. Wien ; vol. 16, 

 P. 933- 



