138 INSECUTOR INSCITI^t MENSTRUUS 



small pale greenish recurved hook ; paJpi apparently 4-segmented, black. 

 Antennae dcirk brown. Head light silvery gray vv^ith blackish reflections ; 

 a fleshy elongate lobe, black in color, on the vertex, extending cephalad 

 to near the base of the antennae. 



Cervical sclerites and the pronotum dark brown. Mesonotum, prae- 

 scutum with a small median brown knob on the cephalic margin. Lobes 

 of the scutum dark brovsTi, this color produced anteriorly in a long stripe 

 which continues along the praescutum to the knob described above. 

 Praescutum with a pale brown median stripe which continues back to the 

 transverse suture ; scutum with the median space pale. Scutellum pale 

 yellowish, except a brown mark on the anterior part on either side, this 

 being an elongation of the caudal lobe. Postnotum yellow with a broad 

 transverse brov^m band. Pleurae with two conspicuous transverse stripes, 

 the upper one broadest, beginnmg above the fore coxae, continuing back- 

 ward, above the halter, to the postnotum where it fuses with the trans- 

 verse brown band described above ; a narrower brown band begins on 

 the mesonotum just before the mesocoxae and continues to the abdomen. 

 Halteres dark brown. Legs, coxae, and trochanters brownish yellow, 

 femora light brown, tibiae and tarsi brownish yellow. Wing, veins dark 

 brown, cells C and Sc light brown, remainder of wings hyeJine ; narrow 

 pale brovm seams along Rs and the cross-veins amd deflections of veins ; 

 there are three dark brown marks in cell Sc, the first at the base, the 

 third at the tip of vein Sc, the second being midway between the other 

 two and containing a supernumerary cross-vein as is usual in this genus. 

 Venation, Sc ending just beyond the origin of Rs ; cross-vein Sci not 

 evident ; Rs long, about twice as long as the deflection of /?4+5 ; cell 

 first Ml very long, narrow, quadrangular or nearly so, the basal 'deflection 

 of Cui at its base ; the veins issuing from cell first M2 very short. 



Abdomen, tergites dark brown ; basal three or four sternites yellowish 

 darkening into browm on the terminal segments. 



Holotype, <?, Pettit Banks, Philippine Islands, October 23, 1912 

 (Dr. Ludlow). Paratypes, 7 c? , with the type, taken at 1 p. m. ; 4 <? , 

 type locality, between daylight and dark on October 22, 1912. 



This species is closest to G. notata Meij. of Java in its striped pleurae ; 

 it differs in the color of the thorax, wings, legs, and structural characters. 



A key to the Oriental species of Geranomyia is given in Brunetti's 

 Fauna of British India, p. 388, 1912. The East Indian species are 

 considered by de Meijere in lijdschrift voor Entomologie, vol. 54, p. 3 1 , 



