164 PROCEEDIXGS OF THE XATIOXAL BIUSEUM. vol.49. 
Holotype. — Tjibodas, Mount Gede, Java; altitude 4,500 feet (Bryant 
and Palmer). 
Type.— Cat. No. 19013, U.S.N.M. 
In de Meijeres key to the Javan species of this genus, ^ this runs 
to G. nitida de Meijere which is a smaller insect with the pale mar- 
gin to the thorax broader, the wings not so dark, etc. 
GERANOMYIA JAVANICA, new species. 
Thoracic dorsum light gray narrowly Imed with black; wings 
spotted with brown. 
Female. — Length, 6.8 mm.; wing, 7 mm.; rostrum, 3.5 mm. Ros- 
trum and palpi dark brownish black. Antennae and head dark 
brownish black. 
Thoracic doreum with the praescutum light gray narrowly lined 
with black; a broader median stripe including the dorsum of the 
pronotum and continuing to the suture; a much narrower, more 
delicate stripe on either side of this; lateral margin of the sclerite 
black; scutum with the lobes dark; scutellum gray, the caudal margin 
blackish. Pleura bluish gray, a yellow ventral stripe including the 
fore and middle coxae. Halteres brown. Legs, fore and middle 
coxae yellow; femora pale brown at the base, tip dark brown; tibiae 
and tarsi dark brown. Wings with a slight suffusion; membrane 
with brown blotches, about seven being on the costa, the third at 
the origm of Bs, the fourth at the tip of Sc, the fifth at the tip of B^ ; 
brown marks along the cross-veins and deflections of veins ; venation : 
(see pi. 42, fig. 8), Sc long, ending just beyond mid-length of Bs; Bs 
between two and three times as long as the deflection of ^4+5. 
Abdomen dark brownish black, ovipositor light brown. 
Habitat. — Java. 
Holotype. — Batavia, Java; April 1, 1909 (Bryant and Palmer). 
Type.—Ciii. No. 19014, U.S.N.M. 
This species is allied to G. decemguttata de Meijere ^ but the wing- 
pattern is very much heavier and the thoracic pattern entirely 
different. It also resembles G. pulcJiripennis Brunetti ^ but the 
thorax is grayish, not brownish yellow. 
Genus RHIPIDIA Meigen. 
Subgenus EHIPIDIA Meigen. 
Rhipidia Meigen, Syst. Beschr., vol. 1, 1818, p. 153. 
RmPIDIA (RmPIDIA) JAVANENSIS de Meijere. 
Rhipidia javanensis de Meijere, Tijdschr. voor Entom., vol. 54, 1911, pp. 31, 32. 
Tjibodas, Mount Gede, Java; altitude 4,500 feet, a male; altitude 
8,000 feet, a male; altitude 9,000 feet, a male (Bryant and Palmer). 
The wing has never been figured; it is shown on plate 42, fig. 9. 
» Tijdschr. voor Entom., vol 54, lon, p. 31. 
2 Idem, vol. 56, 1913, pp. 345, 340, pi. IG, fig. 11. 
« Fauna of British India, Diptera Nematoccra, 1912, pp. 393, 394, pi. 8, fig. 1. 
