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ment to me, as liaviiifi; visited this country before and liaviiin' fotiiid 

 a great variety of insect life, I liad counted upon this to he so again. 

 I had intended to push on further into tlie interior and I would liave 

 done so only for ray becoraing ill, whicii put an end to all my plans. 

 In the meantime and before I was taken ill I captured a few inter- 

 esting specimens in places where the ground was beginning to show 

 green, but the variety of species was lacking. 



Bartica. — Temperature in the sim, 110 to 120 degrees, in the 

 shade, 80 to 84 degrees, during rain, 70 to 72 degrees. The ground 

 is comparativelv low, but a short distance l)ack it rises into the 

 hills. 



Mallali. — Temperature in the sun, 110 to 120 degrees, in the 

 shade, 80 to 84 degrees, during rain, 68 to 70 degrees. The altitude 

 is from 75 to 100 feet above sea-level. 



Family TIPULIDAE 



Subfamily Limnobinae 

 Tribe Linmobini 

 Genus DICRANOMYIA Stephens 

 1829. Dicranomyia Stephens, Cat. Brit. Ins., ii, 243. 

 Dicranomyia eiseni Alexander 



1912. Furcomyia eiseni .\lexander, Canad. Entom.,xIiv, 33S, pi. 1 1 , fig. .s. 

 Bartica, Januarj' 9, 3 males; February 5, 1 male, in swamps. 

 Mallali, March 13, 1 female; March 19, 1 male. 



Dicranomyia apicata sp. n. 



iS long; wings infumed at the tip; pleura without stripes. 



Male, — length, 5-6.4 mm.; wing, 5.7-7 nun. 



Female, — length, 7.1; wing, 6.4-6.9 mm. 



Uostrura and palpi brown. Antennae brownish black throughout, fla- 

 gellar segments rounded oval, more elongated distally. Head blackish with 

 .1 light silvery gray bloom. 



Mesonotal praeseutum light brownish yellow with a very broad brown 

 median stripe that is enlarged behind at the transverse suture; lobes of the 

 scutum and the scutellum dark brown, remainder of these sclerites brownish 

 yellow; postnotum lighter brown. Pleura light yellowish, not marked. 

 Haltercs moderately long, the base of the stem yellowish, the knob brown. 

 Legs, coxae and trochanters yellow; base of the femora yellow soon passing 

 into dark brown; tibiae and tarsi dark brow-n. Wings light brown, thestigraa 

 oval, dark brown; tip of the wing suffused with a paler brown. Venation: 



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