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data ; the note by Champion who collected the type, tell us that the 

 insect lives in the humid forest regions of the mountains (5,000 feet). 



Tanypremna columbiana Enderlein. 



igi2. Pchlkca columbiana Enderlein; Zool. Jahrb., vol. 32, pt. i, p. 

 IS, fig. B. 



Male, length, 27 mm. ; wing, 18.5 mm. 



Hind leg, femur, 15.75 mm.; tibia, 13 mm. 



Head yellow; ej^es very large, black, almost semicircular; occiput 

 somewhat infumed. Front narrow, half as broad as the diameter 

 of the eyes. Antennae very small and short, about 1.75 mm. long, 

 dark brown, the basal segments yellow. Palpi black, the apical seg- 

 ment with the exception of the base brownish yellow. Nasus long, 

 pubescent at the end and somewhat propped. 



Thoracic dorsum dark brown, sternites, pleurae and cox?e bright 

 brownish yellow ; humeral angles of the prsescutum bright brownish 

 yellow ; a similar spot before the wing-base. Before this latter a 

 rather broad brown band extends from the margin of the thoracic 

 dorsum through the middle of the mesopleurse, ending on the meso- 

 coxae which are thus infumed on their outer face. The sides of the 

 prothorax brown, fore coxae browned on their outer face. Legs with 

 the trochanters bright yellowish, hind femora dark brown, pale 

 yellowish at the base; tibia; dark brown, the basal eighth yellowish 

 white ; first tarsal segment black, the second yellowish white ; the re- 

 maining segments as well as those of the fore and middle legs 

 broken off. Abdomen long, brown, the tip somewhat enlarged and 

 darkened, the incisures rather brightened. Halteres greyish black, 

 pedicel very long, brownish yellow and with yellowish pubescence. 

 Wings rather narrow at the base for a rather long space, very 

 narrow ; bright brownish, a brown spot at the base of the radial fork, 

 a rounded blackish brown spot at the stigma, the caudal veins of cell 

 1st M.., the basal deflection of Cu^ seamed with brown, the super- 

 numerary cross-vein between M and Cu broadly seamed with brown ; 

 proxima of the base of M a small hyaline spot. Membrane strongly 

 red to green iridescent. 



Distribution. — Colombia, Hacienda Pehlkea. 

 Translated from the original description. 



Enderlein's figure shows a typical Tanyprci)i>ia with the exception 

 that the tip of R^ is omitted in the figure ; whether it is also lacking 



