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Geranomyia lachrymalis Alexander. (Plate XXV, fig. 6.) 
Geranomyia lachrymalis Alexander; Transactions of the American Ento- 
mological Society, vol. 42, pp. 9, 10 (1916). 
The following additional distributional records : 
Mexico, Cordoba, April 1, 1908 (Knab). 
Guate?nala, Escuintla, November 12, 1902 (Eisen). 
Costa Rica, Cache, March 3, 1910 (Calvert). 
Canal Zone, Tabernilla (Busck). 
Geranomyia certhia sp. n. (Extra-limital). 
Rostrum elongate; head dark gray; prsescutum yellow with three 
dark brown stripes ; legs with the femora and tibiae tipped with dark 
brown; wings hyaline with a prominent oval stigma; cord and outer 
end of cell 1st ilfo seamed with pale brown; abdomen brown with 
two black longitudinal dorsal stripes. 
Male. — Length, excluding the rostrum, 6 mm.; wing, 7 mm.; 
rostrum, about 5 mm. 
Female. — Length as above, 6.5 mm.; wing, 8.4 mm.; rostrum, about 
5 mm. 
Rostrum dark brownish black, long and slender, especially toward 
the tip. Antennae short, black. Head gray, brighter just behind 
the antennae; vertex dark gray with an impressed black line that is 
narrowed behind; occiput suffused with dull yellow. 
Mesonotal praescutum pale buff-yellow with three broad, dark 
brown stripes, the median one double, ending just before the suture; 
lateral stripes shorter, crossing the suture and suffusing the scutal 
lobes; remainder of the scutum buff-yellow; scutellum buff-yellow, 
a little obscured on either side; postnotum light plumbeous brown 
with a very delicate impressed median line. Pleura yellow with a 
sparse pale gray bloom. Halteres yellow, the knobs darker brown. 
Legs with the coxae and trochanters dull yellow; femora brownish 
yellow, the tips l:)roadIy dark brown; tibiae light brown, the tips 
narrowly dark brownish black; tarsi brown. Wings hyaline, the 
stigma prominent, oval, dark brown; cord and outer end of cell 
1st Mi narrowly seamed with pale brown; apex of the wing a little 
darkened; veins dark brown. Venation: Sc long, ending about 
opposite mid-length of the sector. 
Abdominal tergites dark brown, the segments paler, yellowish, 
laterally, more blackish sublaterally, forming two dorsal black lines 
down the abdomen; sternites brownish yellow. 
Habitat. — -Guatemala. 
Holotype, cf , Antigua, Guatemala, September, 1902 (Dr. G. Eisen). 
