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liata ; tlic note by Champion wlio collected the type, tell us that the 

 insect Hvcs in tlic Iniinid forest regions of the mountains (5,000 feet). 



Tanypremna columbiana Kntk-rlcin. 



u)i2. Pclilk-ca foliimbiaiia Kmlcrlcin; Zool. Jahrb., vol. 3J, pt. i. p. 

 ■ 5. fig. B. 



Male, length, 27 mm.; wing, 18.5 mm. 



Hind leg, femur, 15.75 mm.; tibia, 13 mm. 



Head yellow; eyes very large, black, almost semicircular; occiput 

 iiicwhat infumed. Front narrow, half as broad as the diameter 

 1 the eyes. Antenna very small and short, about 1.75 mm. long, 

 rk brown, the basal segments yellow. Palpi black, the apical seg- 

 t lit with the exception of the base brownish yellow. Nasus long, 

 , ilicscent at the end and somewhat propped. 



Thoracic dorsum dark brown, sternite.s, pleur;c and cox.x bright 

 I'lownish yellow; humeral angles of the prsescutum bright brownish 

 'low; a similar .spot before the wing-base. Before this latter a 

 her broad brown band extends from the margin of the thoracic 

 r<um through the middle of the mesopleurje, ending on the meso- 

 XX' which are thus infumed on their outer face. The sides of the 

 ' ihorax brown, fore coxa: browned on their outer face. Legs with 

 I' trochanters bright yellowish, hind femora dark brown, pale 

 I'owish at the base; tibia; dark brown, the basal eighth yellowish 

 lite; first tarsal segment black, the second yellowish white; the re- 

 ining segments as well as those of the fore and middle legs 

 "ken off. Abdomen long, brown, the tip somewhat enlarged and 

 darkened, the incisures rather brightened. Halteres greyish black, 

 pedicel very long, brownish yellow and with yellowish pubescence. 

 Wings rather narrow at the base for a rather long space, very 

 narrow: bright brownish, a brown spot at the base of the radial fork, 

 a rounded blackish brown spot at the stigma, the caudal veins of cell 

 1st ^f,, the basal deflection of Ck, seamed with brown, the super- 

 numerary cross-vein between M and Cu broadly seamed with brown; 

 proxima of the base of M a small hyaline spot. Membrane strongly 

 red to green iridescent. 



Distribution. — Colombia, Hacienda Pehlkea. 

 Translated from the original description. 



F.nderlein's figure shows a typical Tanyfrcmna with the exception 

 that the tip of /?, is omitted in the figure: whether it is also lacking 



