164 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 49. 



Holotype. — Tjibodas, Mount Gede, Java; altitude 4,500 feet (Bryant 

 and Palmer). 



Type.—C^i. No. 19013, U.S.N.M. 



In de Meijeres key to the Javan species of this genus/ this runs 

 to G. nitida de Meijere which is a smaller insect with the pale mar- 

 gin to the thorax broader, the wings not so dark, etc. 



GERANOMYIA JAVANICA, new species. 



Thoracic dorsum light gray narrowly Imed with black; wings 

 spotted with brown. 



Female. — Length, 6.8 mm.; wing, 7 mm. ; rostrum, 3.5 mm. Ros- 

 trum and palpi dark brownish black. Antennae and head dark 

 brownish black. 



Thoracic dorsum with the praescutum light gray narrowly lined 

 with black; a broader median stripe including the dorsum of the 

 pronotum and continuing to the suture; a much narrower, more 

 delicate stripe on either side of this; lateral margin of the sclerite 

 black; scutum with the lobes dark; scutellum gray, the caudal margin 

 blackish. Pleura bluish gray, a yellow ventral stripe including the 

 fore and middle coxae. Halteres brown. Legs, fore and middle 

 coxae yellow; femora pale bro^ra at the base, tip dark brown; tibiae 

 and tarsi dark brown. Wings with a slight suffusion; membrane 

 with brown blotches, about seven being on the costa, the third at 

 the origin of Rs, the fourth at the tip of Sc, the fifth at the tip of B^ ; 

 brown marks along the cross-veins and deflections of veins ; venation : 

 (see pi. 42, fig. 8), Sc long, ending just beyond mid-length of Bs; Bs 

 between two and thi'eo times as long as the deflection of Ri+5. 



Abdomen dark brownish black, ovipositor light brown. 



Hahitat, — Java. 



Holotype. — Batavia, Java; April 1, 1909 (Bryant and Palmer). 



Type.— C&.t. No. 19014, U.S.N.M. 



This species is allied to G. decein guttata de Meijere ^ but the wing- 

 pattern is very much heavier and the thoracic pattern entirely 

 different. It also resembles G. pulcliripennis Brunetti ^ but the 

 thorax is grayish, not brownish yeUow. 



Genus RHIPIDIA Meigen. 

 Subgenus KHIPIDIA Meigen. 

 Rhijndia Meigen, Syst. Beschr., vol. 1, 1818, p. 153. 



RHIPIDIA (RHIPIDIA) JAVANENSIS de Meijere. 

 Rhipidia javanensis de Meijere, Tijdschr. voor Entom., vol. 54, 1911, pp. 31, 32. 



Tjibodas, Mount Ged6, Java; altitude 4,500 feet, a male; altitude 

 8,000 feet, a male; altitude 9,000 feet, a male (Bryant and Palmer). 

 The wing has never been figured; it is shown on plate 42, fig. 9. 



1 Tijdschr. voor Entom., vol 54, lOH, p. 31. 



2 Idem, vol. 5ti, 1913. pp. 345, 34(). pi. 16, fig. 11. 



8 Fauna of British India, Diptera Nematoccra, 1912, pp. 393, 394, pi. 8, fig. 1. 



