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Wings subhyaline, cells C and Sc brown, veins brown. Venation 

 (see Plate IX, figure 9) vein R2 entirely obliterated and only two 

 branches of the sector attain the margin. 



Abdomen broken. 



Holotype, Paraguay, Fiebrig, coll., in the Hungarian Na- 

 tional Museum. 



L. abnormis belongs to Psaronius Enderlein, if this be ad- 

 mitted as a valid genus or subgenus. 



We have here a venational phenomenon which is compar- 

 able to that in the subgenus Leiponeura of Gonomyia Meigen, 

 that is, the total obliteration of one of the branches of the 

 radial sector. This condition is presaged by L. obliterate! 

 Alex. 18 (British Guiana) but in this new species the loss 

 of R2 is complete. In keys to the Tipulid tribes this would 

 run down to the Antochini and students of the family should 

 exercise care in the study of this interesting group of species. 



Tribe 4 LIMNOPHILINI. 

 Genus Limnophila Macquart. 

 1834. Limnophila Macquart; Suit, a Bffon, vol. I, p. 95. 



Limnophila kerteszi sp. n. (PI. IX, fig. 10.) 



Thorax grayish without distinct stripes ; wings long and narrow with 

 brown markings, these largest along the costal border. 



F/male. Length, 8.8 mm. ; abdomen, 7.6 mm. ; wing, 8.6 mm. Ros- 

 trum and palpi very dark brown ; antennae dark brownish black ; head 

 grayish brown. 



Thoracic prsescutum yellowish brown without apparent stripes ; scu- 

 tum gray, the lobes dark brown ; scutellum and postnotum light gray. 

 Pleurae brown with a dull gray bloom. Halteres long, very pale, al- 

 most whitish, the knob a little brown. 



Legs, coxae brownish, trochanters dull yellow, femora dull yellow 

 with an indistinct brown subapical ring, tibias brown, tarsi brown. 



Wings whitish with brown marks as follows : Cell C brown except 

 the outer quarter ; cell Sci except the tip ; a brown mark at the base 

 of cell R, another at the origin of Rs; an irregular brown seam along 

 the cord ; a large brown blotch occupying the end of cell R2 and the 

 middle of cell R$ ; a rounded spot in the middle of cell 7?5 ; marks on 

 the forks of veins, cross-veins and deflections of veins and at the ends 

 of the longitudinal veins ; gray clouds along the anal angle of the wing. 

 Venation (see Plate IX, figure 10) : Sc2 longer than Sci ; Rs very long, 

 straight in a line with 7?2 plus 3 ; cell Mi present. 



18 Alexander, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 44, No. 1966, p. 494, plate 

 68, figure 41 (1913). 



