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antennal coloration, the flagellar segments being alternately dark 

 and light-coloured; segments, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 are whitish, the re- 

 mainder of the antennae brown. The wings have a large spot at the 

 base of Cu and the venation is not as figured by de Meijere. (Com- 

 pare fig. 1 ; pi. III.) 



Female. — Length, 7.6-8.6 mm.; wing, 7.4 mm. 



Vial No. 10.— Tokyo, Japan; April 25, 1912. 2 9s. 



Holotype and Paratype in author's collection. 



In Tijd Voor Entomol., Vol. 44, p. 27, figs. 14-16, de Meijere 

 refers this to Dicranomyia. However, I believe his original refer- 

 ence of the species to be the correct one — this belief based on vena- 

 tional hypopygial characters. 



Tribe A ntochini 



Genus Rhamphidia Meigen. 



Rhamphidia nipponensis, sp. n. 



Rostrum short; palpi pale; wings hyaline without darker 

 marks. 



Female. — Length, 8.9 mm.; wing, 7.8 mm.; middle leg, femur, 

 6.6 mm.; tibia, 7 mm.; tarsus, 6.7 mm. 



Female. — Rostrum light brown; labrum light yellow; palpi 

 light brownish-yellow; antennae brown, flagellar segments cylin- 

 drical with short black bristles not exceeding the segment in length, 

 the outer segments not conspicuously narrowed; front, vertex, oc- 

 ciput and genae dark brown. 



Pronotum dark brown, mesonotal praescutum light brown, 

 with three broad, darker brown stripes, the median one longest, 

 broadest, very dark brown in front; the lateral stripes begin behind 

 the pseudosutural fovea and cross the suture, suffusing the lobes 

 of the scutum; scutum medially light brown, on margins yellow- 

 ish-brown; scutellum brown, margined with yellowish; postnotum 

 brown. Pleurae brownish -yellow, suft'used with brown on portions 

 of the mesopleurae; mesosternum brown. Halteres light yellow, 

 knob slightly darker, brown. Legs: coxae light yellow, tipped with 

 pale brown; trochanters yellow; femora yellowish-brown, rather 

 clearer yellowish basally; tibiae brown, tarsi brown, terminal seg- 

 ments rather darker. Wings, hyaline or nearly so; veins brownish 



