4 SOUTH AMERICAN TIPULIDAE 
The general European holocaust had its effect down in 
Peru, for the bank in which my money was deposited was closed 
and I had to go back to the United States. 
Family TIPULIDAE 
Subfamily Limnobinae 
Tribe Limnohini 
Genus DICRANOMYIA Stephens 
Dicranomyia virilis sp. n. 
Thoracic dorsum with four stripes; femora broadly tipped with yellowish; 
wings pale yellowish subhyaline; abdominal segments with a pale terminal 
annulus. 
Female. — Length, 8.5 to 8.6 mm.; wing, 10.8 to 11.2 mm. 
Rostrum and palpi dark brown. Antennae with the basal segments dull 
yellow, fiagellum dark brown; the segments of the flagellum oval or slightly 
elongate oval. Head light gray. 
Pronotal and cervical sclerites prolonged, dark brown. Praescutum red- 
dish-brown with four dark brown stripes, the middle pair being long and narrow, 
extending almost the entire length of the sclerite; lateral stripes shorter and 
broader, the entii-e sclerite sparsely poUinose; scutum with the lobes dark, 
median area paler; scutellum pale gray on the basal two-thirds, the caudal 
third dull yellow; postnotum brownish yellow, sparsely gray pollinose. Pleura 
dull brownish yellow, the dorsal sclerites darker brown. Halteres rather long, 
slender, pale yellow, the knob dark brown. Legs with the coxae reddish yel- 
low; trochanters dull yellow; femora light brown, toward the tip slightly 
darkened, the actual tip broadly pale yellow; tibiae and tarsi brown. Wings 
pale yellowish subhyaline, stigma oval pale, veins brown. Venation: (see 
plate I, fig. 5) Sc moderately long, 8ci about one-fifth the length of Sci] the 
tip of Sci opposite or slightly before the origin of Rs; Rs long, arcuated, twice 
the length of the basal deflection of Ri+b] basal deflection of Cih just before 
the fork of M. 
Abdominal tergites dark brown, the caudal margin of the sclerites slightly 
paler; sternites dull yellow. 
Habitat. — Peru. Holotype, 9 , Matucana, Peru, altitude 
7788 feet, July 14, 1914. (Parish coll.) Paratype, 9, topo- 
typic. 
This species suggests D. insignifica Alexander ^ in the wing- 
venation but the thoracic dorsum is quadrivittate instead of 
trivittate, the femora are conspicuously paler at their apices, 
the segments of the abdomen ringed with paler at the caudal 
margin and other characters are different. 
2 1912. insignifica Alexander, Canadian Entomologist, xliv, p. 363, pi. XL, 
fig. i; {Furcomyia). 
