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margin, which, on the sides, protects the short, slightly emarginate 

 anal tube. 



\-ial No. H." Tokyo, Japan; .Aug. 1912. 1 cf . 



Holotype. cf. Tokyo, Japan: .Aug. 1912. 



T\pe in llic aullior's collcclion. 



I), uebiilosa resembles luiibrata Meij. (Ja\a), but the log-pal- 

 tLTM and venation are quite different. 



Genus Geranomyia Halidax-. 

 Geranomyia avocclta, sp. n. 



Wings spotted; thoracic dorsum brown, liie liuuierai portions 

 "f the pnescutum yellow-; tibial apices not blackened. 



Male. — Length, excluding the [iroboscis, 7.;i-7.7 nun.; pro- 

 boscis, 3-3.6 mm.; wing, 7.8-7.9 mm. 



Male. — Proboscis and palpi dark brown, liie lurnur more \el- 

 lowish basally; antenna^ basiil segments dark Ijrown, t]ai;('liar seg- 

 ments somewhat lighter brown, segments rounded-o\ai ; front, \er- 

 tex and occiput dark-colored, almost black. 



Pronotum dark brown; in the paratypical specimen, the caudal 

 margin of the scutimi and the scutellum, yellowish. Mesonotal 

 Ijnescutum with a broad, dark brown, median line, widene<l behind; 

 humeral angles conspicuously light yellow, behind darkening into 

 brown of a lighter shade than the broad median vitta; scutmu witii 

 the lobes dark brown, median line paler; scutellum and [jostnotmn 

 brown. Pleura? dull brownish-yellow, clearer below. Halteres 

 l)ale, knob a little browner. Legs: Cox;e and trochanters light 

 \elIow, the latter margined with black at the tip; femora and tibia* 

 light brown, scarcely darkened at their tips; terminal tarsal seg- 

 ments darker brown. Wings, hyaline or nearly so, the costal cells 

 and \eins more lawny; veins light brown, darker brown where tra- 

 \ersed by dark markings; seven brown marks along tlie costal mar- 

 gin, the third at the origin of Rs extending down almost to \ein AT,- 

 the fourth at the tip of Sc extending down into cell Isi R.: ti.e ,5th 

 (stigmal) spot, largest, rectangular; the sixth and seventh spots at 

 ends of veins Rs-a and R4+0 ; cord and outer end of cell 

 1st M2 seamed with brown; a brown spot at ends of most of the 

 veins, most distinct and largest at the 2nd anal \ein. \'enation 

 (see pl.IIL; fig. 8): Sc long, ending nearer to the fcrk of Rs than to 



