NO. 19C0. sryoi'Sis of seotropicxl LrM\uiijy.i:—ALi:.\.\yoi:i!. 541 



the epipleursB to the base of the abdomen. Haltercs long, slender, 

 stem yellow, knob brown Avith the extreme margin paler. Legs: 

 coxiu and trochanters dull yellow; middle coxa with a broad triangu- 

 lar l)huk mark on its caudal aspect; posterior coxie dark broAniish. 

 Hind leg only remains; femora brown except the base, a post-medial 

 ami a sub-ajjical band, yellow; tibite dark brown; tarsi light yellow- 

 ish-bvown. 



Wings clear hyaline with an irregular brown picture; the brown 

 markings not edged mth Ughter as m sackeni, and no tawny as in 

 solairix. Venation (see fig. 36). 



Abdomen: first segment light 3''ellow; tergites dark Ijrowu, the 

 basal half clearer, darker brown, the apical half more indistinct; 

 hypopygium dull 3'ellow; sternites light yellow. 



Habitat. — H6lotijpe. — Male, San Francisco Mountains, Santo 

 Domingo, West Indies, Sept., 1905 (Aug. Busck, coll.)- 



Type. — InU. S. National Museum collection (No. 1493S). 



EPIPHRAGMA ADSPERSA Wiedemann. 



Limnohia adspersa Wiedemann', Auss. Zweifl. Inskt., vol. 1, 1S28, p. .S-aO — Hun- 

 ter, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 2(i, 1900, p. 288.— Kertesz, Cat. Dipt., 

 vol. 2, 1902, p. 169. 



Length, male, 8.25 mm.; wing, 10.2 mm. 



Head: rostrum and palpi bro-wri; antennse: first segment dark 

 brown vnth a gray bloom, second dark, brownish-black, tliird light 

 yellow, fourth pale brownish-yellow, remainder dark brownish- 

 black. Front rather broad, tawny yellow, a median browm line only 

 on the occiput and caudal end of the vertex. 



Thorax: pronotum, yellow with an indistinct darker median line, 

 enlarged behind; mesonotum yellow anteriorly, the sclerite is nar- 

 rowly brownish, with a very narrow brown line running backward 

 toward the suture; on the sides of the prffiscutum the browii is 

 broader and clearer except anteriorly, where it is paler; scutum A\dth 

 a depressed area at the point of the suture; scutum, scutellum, post- 

 notum and meta-notum dull yellowish-brown. PleursB pale brown 

 with the usual duskj^ epipleural stripe leading from the prosternum 

 backward, and the dusky color on the venter. Halteres long, pale 

 brown, knob not conspicuous!}' brighter. Legs: middle jiair; coxas 

 pale, wliitish; trochanters brown; femora dark brown, a narrow yellow 

 band beyond the middle and, a broader one at the tip; tibia, base 



' (!ly 3'ellow, middle tip of tibia 3'ellow; tarsi conspicuousl}' light 



.\', tlie last segment more brown. Hind legs: coxas pale; tro- 



iTs brown; femora dark, the band be3-ond the middle broader 



iu the middle pair, tip of femora and base of tibia with subsqual 



of pale vellow; tibia almost all light 3-ellow with a broad brown 



.-iwajiical band; tarsi, basal two-thirds of the metatarsus pale yellow, 



rest of the tarsi dark brown. 



