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distinct stiginal spot; femora dark brown before the tip, tibiEe black 
at the tip. 
Male. — Length, excluding the rostrum, about 6.5 mm.; wing, 
6.6 mm.; rostrum, about 2.5 mm. 
Female. — Length as above, about 5 mm. ; wing, 6 mm. ; rostrum , 
about 1.8 mm. 
Rostrum moderate in length, brownish yellow, darker towards 
the tip. Antennae with the first segment brownish yellow, the 
remainder of the antennae dark brownish black; flagellar segments 
short-oval. Head light gray, more yellowish behind. • 
Thorax reddish brown without distinct stripes or marlcings of any 
kind, the scutellum a little more yellow. Pleura pale reddish brown 
with a very sparse grayish bloom. Halteres short, pale yellow, the 
knobs a little darker. Legs with the coxse reddish; trochanters dull 
yellow; femora dull yellow with a broad brownish annulus 
immediately before the tip; tibise brownish yellow, the extreme tip 
black; tarsi yellowish brown, the apical segments darker. Wings 
nearly hyaline; stigma indistinct; veins dark brown, C, Sc and Cu 
a little more yellowish. Venation: Sc long, extending over one-half 
the length of the radial sector. 
AlDdominal tergites dull yellow with a narrow, poorly indicated, 
brown sublateral line; sternites yellowish, on the terminal segments 
more reddish. 
The female is quite similar to the male, but smaller with a still 
shorter rostrum that is not so noticeably pallid basally; abdominal 
tergites brown, the last tergite more yellowish. 
Habitat. — Southeastern L^nited States. 
Holotype, cf, Braidentown, Manatee County, Florida, March 
(M. C. VanDuzee). 
Allotype, 9 , with the type. 
Paratopotypes, 2 c/' 9 . 
The type is in the collection of Mr. Van Duzee, to whom the 
species is respectfully dedicated. 
In its unmarked thorax this species runs closest to G. distinda 
which has a longer rostrum and lacks the dark markings on the 
femora and the black apices to the tibise. 
Geranomyia intermedia Walker. (Plate XXV, fig. 3.) 
Limnobia intennedia Walker; List Diptera British Museum, vol. 1, p. 47 
(1848). 
The following specimens are at hand: 
A 9 , Kingston, Jamaica, February 10, 1903 (M. Grabham), a 9 , 
