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and Florida. It is a much larger and more vigorous species 
with the black pleural stripe broader, the wing-pattern much 
heavier and better defined. 
Rhipidia (Arhipidia) annulicornis Endcrlein 
1912. Rhipidia nnnulicornis Enderlein, Zool. Jahrb., xxxii, pt. 1, pp. 80, 
81, fig. VI. 
One female from La Cumbre, Colombia, altitude 6600 feet, 
collected May 15, 1914, by H. S. Parish. 
Rhipidia (Arhipidia) domestica Osten Sacken 
1859. Rhipidia domestica Osten Sacken, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 
p. 208. 
Several specimens. Call, Colombia, altitude 500 feet, May 
25, 1914 (Parish). La Cumbre, Colombia, altitude 6600 feet, 
May 18, 1914 (Parish). Lima, Peru, altitude 500 feet, July 29 to 
August 24, 1914 (Parish). 
Genus GERANOMYIA Haliday 
Geranomyia lachrymalis sp. n. 
Color dull black, the thoracic dorsum without distinct stripes; legs dark 
brown except the bases of the femora which are yellowish; wings dark colored 
without a distinct stigmal spot. 
Male.— Length, excluding rostrum, 5.6 mm.; wing, 7.1 mm.; rostnun, 2.5 
mm. 
Female.— Length, excluding the rostrum, 4.5 mm.; wing, 5.6 mm.; rostrum, 
3 mm. 
Rostrum and palpi black. Antennae black. Head blackish gray. 
Mesonotal praescutum dull black without apparent stripes; scutum with 
the lobes dull black, the middle portion more brownish; scutellum black, 
the caudal margin more reddish; postnotum dull blackish brown. Pleura 
gray. Halteres rather short, the base dull yellow, the knob dark brown. 
Legs with the coxae and trochanters yellowish brown, femora yellowish at 
the base, soon passing into dark brown; tibiae and tarsi dark brown. Wings 
tinged with blackish, stigma scarcely distinct, veins dark brown. Vena- 
tion: (see plate II, fig. 3) Sc ending just beyond the origin of Rs; in the holo- 
type, cell 1st Mi is long and narrow, the cross-vein r-m obhterated by fusion 
of r[+, and M,+2, the basal deflection of Cu, at the fork of M; in the allotype, 
cell 1st M2 is shorter, cross-vein r-m present, the basal deflection of Cui before 
the fork of M. 
Abdomen dark grayish black. 
Habitat.— Ecuador. Holotype, cf, Huigra, Ecuador, alti- 
tude 4500 feet, June 13, 1914 (Parish coll.). Allotype, 9, 
topotypic. 
TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLII. 
