Sept., i9"3l Alexander: Craxefhes from Colombian Andes. 211 



Female, length, 20-22 mm.; wing, 25-26.5 mm. 



Palpi brown, frontal prolongation of the head rich orange yellow, brownish 

 beneath ; antennae with the scapal segments very small, dull yellow, flagellum 

 broken ; front, vertex and occiput orange yellow with a narrow, indistinct 

 brown median line, sides of the vertex and the gense a little suffused with 

 brown. 



Pronotum dull yellow, a little brown on the sides and on the median line. 

 Mesonotal praescutum dull brownish yellow with three dark brown lines, of 

 which the median one is double, being bisected by a pale line, the median 

 stripe is broadest in front, where it spreads out over the sclerite, narrowed 

 behind, the lateral stripes are much shorter, elongate oval ; scutum dull brown- 

 ish yellow, each lobe with two large brown spots ; scutellum dull yellow, pale 

 brown on the sides ; postnotum dull yellow with a moderately broad pale brown 

 median line and a rounded pale brown spot on either side in front. Pleurae 

 dull brownish yellow, becoming more brownish on the mesosternum. Halteres 

 brown, paler at the extreme base. Legs, coxae yellowish brown, trochanters 

 similar, femora light brownish yellow, the tip narrowly brown, tibia; brown, 

 the tips scarcely darker, tarsi brown. Wings with a pale brown suffusion, 

 costal and subcostal cells more yellowish, stigma brown, veins yellowish brown. 

 Venation as in PI. 4, fig. 7. 



Abdominal tergitcs yellowish brown, with a moderately broad median 

 brown stripe which spreads out on the 6th and 7th segments, a broad, irregular 

 lateral band near the margin of the tergites ; stemites dull yellow, with a broad 

 brownish median stripe. Ovipositor with the tergal valves very long and 

 slender, flattened and rather ' gradually narrowed to the rather acute tips; 

 sternal valves very short, extending only beyond the base of the tergal valves, 

 the tips, viewed from the side, obtusely rounded. 



Holotype, 2. Valle de las Papas, :March 29, 1912. 



Paratype, ?, with the type. 



The specific name is that of a native Indian tribe, dwelling on the 

 middle Putumayo River. 



T. miranha is allied to T. paidscni Philippi (Chile") in its unmarked 

 wings, color of the antennae, etc.: the thorax and abdomen are not 

 ijrav or gravisli. however. 



FXFL.-WATIOX OF PL.\TES. 



Pl.\te IV. 



llipcr iiETurr. view in the Valle dc las Papas, Colombia, showing the 

 iramo ' conditions. 

 Lower figure, view in the ' cloud " forest, near the Valle de las Papas. 

 Photos by John Thomas Lloyd. 



