DIPTERA 7 



of the dorsum except two very short central stripes and two small lateral spots im- 

 mediately in front of the suture; behind the suture four slender stripes, two central and 

 two lateral, the former continued over the scutellum ; metanotum- dark ; halteres with 

 yellow base, dark stem and yellow club. Abdomen brown, banded with yellow on the 

 fore borders of the segments, venter yellowish. Legs yellow, femora conspicuously 

 banded with dark brown at the tip, tibiae very slightly darker at the tip. Wings 

 hyaline, with the marginal cross-vein, origin of 2nd vein, origin of 3rd vein, anterior 

 and posterior cross-veins, base of fork ot anterior branch of 4th vein and transverse 

 vein closing discal cell, clouded with fuscous, a slight clouding also at junction of the 

 1st, 4th and 5th longitudinal veins. Auxiliary vein terminating opposite the origin of 

 the 3rd vein, anterior branch of 4th vein bifurcating considerably before the end of 

 the discal cell, posterior transverse vein before the middle of the discal cell. 



Hab. Hawaii, Kona, two males, 2000 — 3000 ft., Sept. — Oct. 1892. — Oahu, 

 Honolulu, November 1896, one female. 



Plate I. fig. 12, wing. 



DicRANOMYiA Stephens, 

 (i) Dicrauo7iiyia apicalis, sp. nov. 



Long. Corp. ,? 7, $ 6 — 7 mm. ; al. ^ 8, $ 7 — 9 mm. Ochraceous ; head yellow, 

 frons in % silvery, antennae pale with ist joint dark fuscous. Thorax with pale yellow 

 central stripe and sides of mesonotum light brown ; pronotum light yellow with brown 

 lateral spots ; metanotum, scutellum and halteres pale. Abdomen brownish, Z genitalia 

 dark brown, % with ovipositor reddish-yellow. Legs pale, femora with a black ring at 

 the tip, tibiae slightly infuscated at the tip. Wings yellowish hyaline, not spotted, 

 stigma light brown, auxiliary vein terminating opposite to or a little before, and sub- 

 costal cross-vein considerably before, the origin of the 2nd vein. 



Hab. Hawaii, Olaa, one male and two females, July 1895, and December 1896. — 

 Lanai, 2000 ft., one female, December 1893. 



Plate L fig. 13, male genitalia. 



(2) Dicraucviiyia /lawaiiciisis, sp. nov. 



$ $. Long. Corp. 6 — 7 mm. ; al. 7 mm. Head and front cinereous, antennae dark 

 brown with the two basal joints yellow. Thorax yellowish-cinereous, mesonotum with 

 a double central dark brown stripe reaching from the anterior margin to the transverse 

 suture, and two lateral patches of the same colour commencing behind the humeri and 

 reaching to the scutellum, which is cinereous ; metanotum cinereous above with the sides 

 fuscous ; halteres pale, base of club darker. Abdomen dark brown, segments narrowly 



