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passing into two sharp chitinized points; viewed from the side (fig. 10) 

 these sharp tips are directed strongly ventrad and viewed from beneath 

 (fig. 12) they are seen to be decussate. Gonapophyses short, directed 

 dorsad at the tip which is blunt and truncated. 



Female: Similar to the male but the head of one specimen is 

 entirely dark, the dorsal brown stripe on the pleurae clearer and narrower 

 not grading insensibly into the yellow of the dorsal pleurites. 



Holotype, d', Nadi, Fiji Is., 7-28, '13. Allotype, 9, and 

 paratype, 9 , with the type. 



Gonomyia (Gonomyia) varipes, sp. n. 



Head yellow with a brown vertical spot; thoracic dorsum brown; 

 legs banded brown and white; wings with the costal margin conspicu- 

 ously bright yellow. 



Female, length, 4.G mm.; wing, 3.6 mm. 



Female : Rostrum and palpi brown. Antennae with the two basal 

 segments light yellow above, brown on the under surface; the two or 

 three basal flagellar segments are yellowish, the remainder brown. 

 Head light yeUow, a narrow transverse brown mark across the front 

 behind the antennas and a V-shaped browTi mark on the vertex with its 

 point directed cephalad. 



Pronotum light brown except the scutellum which is very light 

 yellow, a continuation of the dorsal pleural stripe. Mesonotal prae- 

 scutum very dark clove-brown, unifonn; scutum similar except the 

 median portion and the outer caudal angles of the lobes which are paler; 

 scutellum brown, the apical two-thirds pale; mesonotum light brown. 

 Pleurae and sterna browai except a broad yellow line extending from the 

 wing-root along the dorsal pleurites to the pronotum and a second 

 broad whitish yellow stripe extending from the fore coxje, above the 

 middle coxae to imdemeath the halteres. Halteres uniform light 

 sulphur yellow. Legs, — fore legs, coxa; light yellow at the base, the tip 

 browTi; trochanters brown; femora brown; tibiae, extreme base and 

 apical two-fifths brown, the remainder china-white; metatarsus with 

 the basal half white, remainder of the tansi browTi. One other leg is 

 loose in the vial and belongs to either the middle or hind legs, — here the 

 base of the femur is yellowash passing into brown at the tip; the tibiae 

 all white except the very narrow base and slightly broader apex which 

 are brown and the meta'tarsus is white except the tip which is broadly 

 brown; remaining tarsal segments brown. Wings, costa very con- 

 spicuously pale sulphur-yellow, remaining veins brown; wnng-mem- 

 brane with a light brown suffusion; cell Ri paler and containing the 

 oval brown stigma. Venation as showTi in figure 4. 



Abdominal tergites and stemites dark brown, the j^lcural region 

 paler. 



Holotype, 9, Nadi, Fiji Is., 7-28, '13. 



