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the wing; wing tip suffused with brown; inner end of cell R.. adjoining vein 

 R2, pale, hyaline ; remainder of cell R^, most of R, and outer end of R^, uniformly 

 brown, without hyaline droplets as in most of the species ; veins rather indis- 

 tinctly seamed with darker color; stigma dark brown, uniform. Venation 

 (see Fig. /) : 7?, very strongly arcuated, beyond the arcuation, R, is shorter than 

 M,^, between the cross-veins r-in and m ; fusion of M, and C«i e-xtensive, longer 

 than R,. 



Abdomen : tergum brown, segments paler basally, rather darker apically ; 

 Sth segment brownish-black ; hypopygium pale ; sternites not visible in the single 

 specimen before me. 



(J, length, 12 mm. ; wing, 14.2 mm. Hind leg, femur, 13 mm. ; tibia, 15.6 mm. 



Distribution. — Dutch Guiana (Wiedemann's type) ; Brazil (Man- 

 aos. State of Amazonas) (Miss Merrill, Coll.). Specimen in U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. Coll. 



This small species is conspicuously different from the nearest 

 related species in its wing and leg pattern. The lack of hyaline drop- 

 lets in the ends of the radial cells distinguishes it from similis, brevi- 

 zrntris and Williamson i. The leg pattern is closest to pictipes, but I 

 cannot believe the two species to be conspecific. Pictipes is larger, 

 arid the dark tibial band in only 3 mm. broad; Candida is our small- 

 est species and the tibial band is broad, narrowest on the hind legs 

 (6 mm.) and very wide on the fore legs (12 mm.). 

 Brachypremna pictipes Osten Sacken. 

 1S87. Brachypremna pictipes O. S., Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., Vol. 31, pt. 2, p. 239. 



1900. Brachypremna pictipes Hunter, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. 26, p. 285. 



1902. Brachypremna pictipes Kcrtesz, Cat. Dipt., Vol. 2, p. 265. 



"cJ. — Front and vertex brownish, paler in the middle; antennas brownish, 

 two basal segments yellow; rostrum yellowish above, brown below; palpi brown 

 at base and tip but yellow in the middle. Ground color of thorax brownish- 

 yellow ; coUare with a short double longitudinal stripe in the middle and a 

 lateral brown spot on each side ; mesonotum with a double brown intermediate 

 stripe and short, broad lateral stripes ; metanotum pale with three brown stripes ; 

 some brown spots on the pleurse. .\bdomen brown above, with a very faint 

 longitudinal stripe on the basal sc.gments ; venter yellowish with a brown streak 

 in the middle of each segment, forming an interrupted longitudinal stripe; male 

 genitals, small, yellowish. Halteres brownish, paler at bases. Femora brown- 

 ish, the tip yellowish-white for about 1.5 mm.; tibia; and tarsi yellowish-white 

 except a brown ring on the tibiae, about 3 mm. broad placed at about 1.5 mm. 

 from the knee, the interval being white. Wings with a uniformly pale brownish 

 tinge, the stigma but slightly darker; venation like B. brevivenlris Wied. 

 L. 16-18 mm. 



