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Holotype, S . Coroii-o, Liolivia. 



Allotype, 9 . with the type. 



Paratypes. 40 c? 9. r>artioa. r>rit. Guiana (II. S. Parish, 

 coll.-). 



Ty[)cs in the Iliingariaii Xational Museum ; paiatypes in au- 

 thor's collection. 



G. ciiwrciiiota is allieil to dircrsa ( >. S. of the luistern U. S., 

 hut has a long Sc. and a dilTercnt thoracic- and wint^-pat- 

 tcrn. 



Geranomyia scolopax, sp. 11. 



Rostrum short, barely exceeding the antenn.Te in length ; thoracic no- 

 tuni greyish brown with dark brown stripes; legs uniform; wings hya- 

 line with three brown costal spots. 



Male. — Length, 5.3 mm. ; wing, 7 mm. 



Proboscis short, scarcely longer than the anlenna'. dark 1>niwn; an- 

 tenna: dark brownish black; head grey. 



Mesothoracic prxscutum greyish brown, witli an ill-dcfiiied. darker 

 median stripe and the lateral margin of the scUrite dark 1>r<iwn, this 

 color being the continuation of the dark propleune. scutum dark 

 brown ; scutellum and postnotum a little lighter. Pleurae light brown 

 with a broad greyish brown band extending the length of the thorax 

 above the base of the halteres and below the wing root, becoming con- 

 fluent with the postnotum. Halteres pale, the knob a little brown. 



Legs, coxse and trochanters yellow, fore femora dull yellow, tibiae 

 and tarsi brown ; middle and hind legs brown excepting the cox;e and 

 trochanters which are yellow. 



Wings hyaline, or nearly so, with a distinct oval, brown stigma, a 

 brown cloud at the fork of Sc including the base of Rs, cell Sc with a 

 brown cloud at one-half its length. Venation: Sc rather short, end- 

 ing a little beyond the origin of lis; Sc2 at the tip of Sc\ ; basal deflec- 

 tion of Cm at the fork of M. 



.'Vbdominal tergites rich brown, the extreme base of cacli segment 

 pale; the lateral edge and an indistinct median vitta brown; stcrnitcs 

 brown. 



Holotype, 5, Callanga, Peru, in the llung.irian XiUional 

 Museum. 



Closest to cincreinota. sj). n., hut with distinct sjjols on the 

 wing and with the median pra'scutal stripe ill-defined. 



Genus Peripheroptcra Schiner. 

 1866. Peripheroptcra Schiner; Verb. Zool. bot. ges. Wien ; vol. 16, 



