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Costa Rica — 2000 meters— Sept. ; Orosi, Costa Rica— 1200 me- 

 ters — Nov.-Feb. 



It is difficult to say just where the specimens were taken. 

 Holotype, S— Costa Rica (Sr. Picado, coll.) Allotype, 9 — 

 with the type. Paratypes, 4 9 's — with the type. 



All of the types in U. S. Nat. Mus. Coll. (Type No. 14.957). 

 The species is conspicuously different from the six Neotropical 

 species of Mongoma that are known to me in its striking leg- 

 pattern. Whether or not the long ovipositor has a signilicancc 

 in the manner of egg-deposition is a question for the collecton 

 to verify; a similar condition exists in the females of other 

 species and it is possible that these may, likewise, have this pe- 

 culiar larval habitat. I'.ut one Moiii^oiiia has ever been reared 

 hitherto. De Meijcre has recentlyi described the larva and 

 pupa of the East Indian M. pennipes O. S. (I.e.; p. 50, 51 ; fig. 

 41, pupa). He states that Mr. Jacobson found the larvre at 

 Semarang (Java), Jan., 1906, in decaying plant-stems. 



In conclusion, I would mention the rearing from Bromeliads 

 of one of the "false crane-flies" by .'^r. Picado, aivl its recent 

 characterization as Anisopus picttiratits- by Mr. Knab. 



