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is a little longer than or subequal to the yellow area proximad to it. 
Wings with a pale gray tinge, the costal margin with three dark 
brown blotches, the largest at the origin of Rs and the tip of Sc; 
stigma rectangular; a large blotch at the middle of Sc; pale brown 
seams along the cross-veins and deflections of veins; tip of the wing 
a little darkened; veins dark brown, R between the brown markings 
bright yellow. Venation: Sc rather short, extending to about 
one-quarter the length of the sector; Sc2 at the tip of Sci; basal 
deflection of Ri+i long, restricting the r-m cross-vein. 
Abdominal tergites dark brown, the ninth segment more yellowish; 
sternites yellowish brown, the apical segments more yellowish. 
Habitat. — Central America. 
Holotype, 9 , Aguna, Guatemala, altitude 2,000 feet (Dr. G. Eisen). 
Paratbpotype, 9 ; paratype, 9 , Cucaracha, Canal Zone, November 
17, 1908, No. 14 (C. H. Bath). 
Type in the collection of the United States National Museum. 
Related to insignis Loew, but smaller, the thorax grayish with the 
brown stripes broader, the subterminal brown annulus on the femora 
much broader, the wings grayish with the brown markings larger 
and darker; it is a much smaller species than plumheipleura (wing 
and body, over 8 mm. ; rostrum, 3 mm.) with the mesonotal coloration 
more grayish, the wings with the pattern not so dark, but more 
extensive, the interspaces of the costal region not so brightened, etc. 
Tribe Antochini. 
This is one of the smaller of the crane-fly tribes, the species of the 
eastern United States and Canada being as follows: 
Antocha saxicola Osten Sacken. 
Canadian and Transitional zones of the east, ranging from Ontario 
and Quebec, south to Georgia, west to Winnipeg, Michigan and 
Illinois. In New York and New England it flies from May 13 to 
September 25. 
Atarba picticornis Ostcn Sacken. 
Canadian-Transitional and Transitional zones of the eastern 
United States, ranging from New York and Massachusetts, south to 
Virginia and North Carolina, west to Indiana and Tennessee. In 
New York and New England it flies from June 19 to July 13, having 
an unusually short flight-period. In the south it flies later (October 
7, Tennessee) and appears earlier (May 29, Maryland). 
Dicranoptycha germana Osten Sacken. (Plate XXV, fig. 10.) 
Canadian life-zone of the northeastern United States, ranging 
from New York, Vermont and New Hampshire, south, in the moun- 
