

83 



1909. Idem. — Oenera Insectonun (dirigts par P. Wytsman), Bruxelles, 

 97 me fascicule, Family Clialcidid;«. pp. 427, 464, 465, 468. 

 Table to the genus as in Ashmcad (1904) ; brief diagnosis of 

 the genus, listing colliguayct, melUus, persimiUs and viridi- 

 cyaiuus, Euderus colnmbianus (p. 427). 

 (See also KiefTer, bionomic note on ayHiguayie, Rcv^ista Chilena de 

 llisioiia Natural. Organo del .\Iuseo de Valpaiso, VII, p. i 1 1.) 



NEW .VFRIC.W TIPULID^. 



BY C. P. AI.F.XANIlF.R, ITH,\C.\, X. V. 



The following species were given by JNIr. Chas. W . Howard to Prof. 

 Needham, and later turned over to me for examination. There were four 

 specimens, representing three specie.';, of which two are herein character- 

 ized as new. Mr. Howard's remark, that "the species were as thick as 

 gnats," is interesting. 



Styringomyia howardi, n. sp. i.i,.t^j<-i 



Holotype. — i, brown and gray; length, 5,25 mm,; \vmM^Yj\.---, mm. 

 Mouthparts dark brownish black ; pal|)i, first segment very short ; 

 second segment large, oval, brown, apical third black ; third more slender, 

 brown, apical two-thirds black ; terminal segment about as thick as the 

 penultimate. .Vntennse : first segment elongated, gray ; second oval, en- 

 larged at the distal end, remaining segments oval, gradually becoming 

 more elongated to the tip ; segments with a short pubescence and long 

 irregular hairs, which are scarcely verticillate ; first segment gray, second 

 dark brown at tip, yellowish at base ; remaining segments pale brownish 

 yellow, the hairs darker ; ommatidia large, coar.se, black ; front, vertex, 

 gente and occiput gray, with stout, scattered black bristles. 



Pronotum large and prominent, showing an unusually generali/.ed 

 condition ; the scutellum U-shaped, encircling the cephalic margin of the 

 mesothoracic prsescutum, with about three prominent bristles on the lateral 

 margin ; the scutum is narrower, running to an obtuse point cejihalad, 

 with a group of bristles along the lateral margin. Mesonotum : prwscutum 

 with a row of bristles along each side of the median line and a row along 

 the lateral margin, this row incurving near the cephalic margin of the 

 sclerite ; scutum with four bristles on each half; the scutellum with a 

 bristle on either side of the median line ; pouscutum and metanotum im- 

 arnied. Pronotum brown, pale apically, with an inverted U-shaped pale 

 mark on the scutum ; mesonotum pr:ie5cutum, middle line pale, remainder 



