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Variations: In some specimens the basal 4 or 5 segments are 

 pale; yellow triangles on sides of abdominal tergites vary in dis- 

 tinctness. 



Vial No. 4.— Tokyo, Japan; April 25, 1912. 1 d". 



Vial No. 14.— Tokyo, Japan; April 25, 1912. 1 9 • 



Vial No. 15.— Tokyo, Japan; April 25, 1912. 4 c^s, 2 9s. 



Vial No. 24.— Tokyo, Japan; April 27, 1912. 7 d^s, 6 9 s. 



Vial No. 32.— Tokyo, Japan; May 7, 1912. 3 9s. 



Vial No. 33.— Tokyo, Japan; May 7, 1912. 2 d's. 



Vial No. 37.— Tokyo, Japan; May 7, 1912. 1 ^. 



Vial No. 38.— Tokyo, Japan; May 7, 1912. 1 9 . 



Holotype.— cf, Tokyo, Japan; April 27, 1912. (Vial 24). 



Allotype. — 9, with the type (Vial 24). 



Paratypes. — 14 cfs; 12 9s; Tokyo, Japan; April 25-May 7, 

 1912. 



Types in author's collection. 



Paratypes in U.S. National Museum and Cornell University 

 collections. 



D . japonica resembles umhrata Meij. from Java (1) but the legs 

 are much paler, wing-pattern and venation different, and it is a 

 much larger species (wing, 9-10 mm.; in umbrata, 5 mm.). 



Dicranomyia nebulosa, sp. n. 



Subcosta long; wings clouded with grey; femora pale apically, 

 with a dark subterminal ring. 



Male. — Length, 5.4 mm.; wing, 5.8 mm. 



Male. — Rostrum and palpi dark brown; antennae, 1st segment 

 brown at base, more yellowish at the tip, succeeding segments 

 brown; flagellar segments rounded, short-pedicallate, these pedicels 

 being whitish; front, vertex and occiput, ver}^ dark blackish. 



Pronotum brownish-yellow, darker brown medially above. 

 Mesonotum rather gibbous, brown, a narrow, darker brown, 

 median line on the praescutum; lateral margin of this sclerite with a 

 rounded dark brown spot which is connected with short lateral 

 stripes nearer to the median vitta; scutum light brown, lobes mar- 

 gined with dark brown; scutellum with a dark brown median mark; 

 postnotum brown. Pleurae brown, almost uniform, paler near the 



(1) (Tijd voor Entomol.; Vol.44; p. 25; pi. 1, f. 7.; 1911.) 



