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Genus Rhipidia Mcigen. 



1818. Rhipidia Mcigen, System. Bcsclir., vol. I, p. IS3- 



Rhipidia domestica ang^stifrons Alexander (1912). 



Alexander, Bull. Brook. Knt. Soc, vol. 8, pp. 16, 17; pi. i, fig. ?. 



One 9 from Callanga, Peru. 



Rhipidia, sp. 



One 9 from San Bernardino, Paraguay. Fiebrig, 1908. It 

 i.5 allied to domestica but the antennae are entirely lacking and 

 closer identification is impossible. 



Rhipidia, sp. 



One 9 from Asuncion, Paraguay. \'ezenyi, 1904. 



Genus Geranomyia Ilaliday. 



1833. Geranomyia Haliday; Entomol. Magaz., vol. I, p. 154. 



Geranomyia valida I.oew. (PI. XIV, Fig. 2). 



1851. Aporosa valida Loew. ; Linnxa Entomologica, vol. 5, p. 398. 



One 9, Concepcion, Chile, 1903; P. Ilerbst, coll. 



A few additional details to Loew's characterization may be 

 given. Proboscis split at tip, each lip recurved, the palpi very 

 short and stout. Legs stout, cox?e, trochanters and femora yel- 

 lowish, not darkened ; tibiae yellowish brown ; tarsi, segments 

 1-3, brownish yellow, narrowly brownish at the tip of each, 

 segments 4 and 5, brown. Wing venation (see plate XIV, fig. 

 2). Length, about 6.5 mm. : wing. 9.6 mm. ; rostrum, 2.2 mm. 



Geranomyia numenius, sp. n. (PI. XIV, Fig. 3). 



Rostrum long, thorax reddish brown, the proescutum witli tliree pale 

 vitta: and a dark brown median stripe ; femora with a dark suliapical 

 ring; wings spotted, Sc long. 



Female. — Length (e.xcluding rostrum), 9.3 mm.; wing. 9._' mm.; pro- 

 boscis, 6.2 mm. 



Proboscis dark brownish black ; antennas almost black, the ilagellar 

 segments elongate-cylindrical ; front, vertex and occiput grey. 



Pronotum light grey with a broad dark brown median vitta. 

 Mesonotal prxsculum rich reddish brown divided by three pale longi- 

 tudinal whitish grey stripes, the median one broad and bisected by a 

 narrow dark brown line which begins just behind the front margin of 

 the sclerite and runs to the suture, the pale lateral vitta: narrow, en- 

 larged at their anterior end before the pseudosutural fovea and run to 

 the suture; scutum, scutellum and postnotum rich reddish brown, the 

 latter with a paler median line. Pleurae pale testaceous brown, darker 



