CHARLES P. ALEXANDER 9 



and Florida. It is a much larger and more vigorous species 

 with the black pleural stripe broader, the wing-pattern much 

 heavier and better defined. 



Rhipidia (Arhipidia) annulicornis Enderlein 



1912. Rliipidla annulicortti.'i Enderlein, Zool. Jahrl)., xxxii, pt. 1, pp. SO, 

 81, fig. yi. 



One female from La Cumbre, Colombia, altitude 6600 feet, 

 collected May 15, 1914, by H. S. Parish. 



Rhipidia (Arhipidia) domestica Osten Sacken 



1859. Rhipidia domestica Osten Sacken, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 

 p. 208. 



Several specimens. Call, Colombia, altitude 500 feet, May 

 25, 1914 (Parish). La Cumbre, Colombia, altitude 6600 feet, 

 May 18, 1914 (Parish). Lima, Peru, altitude 500 feet. July 29 to 

 August 24, 1914 (Parish). 



Genus GERANOMYIA Haliday 

 Geranomyia lachiymalis sp. n. 



Color dull black, the thoracic dorsum without distinct stripes; legs dark 

 brown except the bases of the femora which are yellowish ; wings dark colored 

 without a distinct stigmal spot. 



Male. — Length, excluding rostrum, 5.6 mm.; wing, 7.1 mm.; rostnmi, 2.5 

 mm. 



Female. — Length, excluding the rostrum, 4.5 mm.; wing, 5.6 mm.; rostrum, 

 3 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi black. Antennae black. Head blackish gray. 



ISIesonotal praescutum dull black without apparent stripes; scutum with 

 the lobes dull black, the middle portion more brownish; scutellum black, 

 the caudal margin more reddish; postnotum dull l)lackish brown. Pleura 

 gray. Halteres rather short, the base dull yellow, the knob dark brown. 

 Legs with the coxae and trochanters yellowish brown, femora j^ellowish at 

 the base, soon passing into dark brown; tibiae and tarsi dark browTi. Wings 

 tinged with blackish, stigma scarcely distinct, veins dark brown. Vena- 

 tion: (see plate II, fig. 3) Sc ending just beyond the origin of Rs; in the holo- 

 type, cell Isl Mi is long and narrow, the cross-vein r-m obliterated by fusion 

 of i?4+5 and Mi+2, the basal deflection of Cui at the fork of M; in the allotype, 

 cell Isl Mo is shorter, cross-vein r-m present, the basal deflection of C»i before 

 the fork of M. 



Abdomen dark grayish black. 



Habitat. — Ecuador. Holotype, cf , Huigra, Ecuador, alti- 

 tude 4500 feet, June 13, 1914 (Parish coll.). Allotype, 9, 

 topotypic. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLII. 



