Ko. 2103. JAVANESE CRAKE-FLIES— ALEXANDER. 167 



Thorax yellowish brown, the dorsum mdistinctly darker; scutellum 

 darker brown. Halteres rather short, knob brown, stem yellow. 

 Legs, coxae, and trochanters dull yellow, remainder of the legs brown. 

 Wmgs nearly hyaline, veins browTi; venation: (see pi. 43, fig. 13), 

 Sc long, extending far beyond the fork of Rs; Scz near the tip of Sci- 



Abdomen dark brown. 



Habitat. — Java. 



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

 (Bryant and Palmer). 



Allotype. — Female, topotypic. 



Type.— Csit. No. 19016, U.S.N.M. 



L. nigricomis is allied to L. forcipata de Meijere, but the antennae 

 are dark throughout and the details of venation are different. 



Tribe ANTOCHINI. 



Genus PARATROPEZA Schiner. 



Paratropeza Schiner, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 16, 1866, p. 932. 



PARATROPEZA ORNATIPENNIS de Meijere. 



Gnophomyia ornatipennis de Meuere, Tijdschr. voor Entom., vol. 54, 1911, 

 pp. 47, 48, pi. 3, fig. 34. 



Four males, Tjibodas, Mount Gede, Java, altitude 4,500 feet 

 (Bryant and Palmer). This is the first species of the genus to be 

 found in the Old World, the five species hitherto described being 

 confined to the Neotropical region. It was described as a Gnophomyia 

 but the whole habitus of the insect is Antochine and I believe that 

 the insect should be referred to Paratropeza. The wing is shown on 

 plate 43, fig. 14. 



Genus RHAMPHIDIA Meigen. 



Subgenus RHAMPHIDIA Meigen. 



Rhamphidia Meigen, System. Bescbr., vol. 6, 1830, p. 281. 



RHAMPHIDIA (RHAMPHIDIA) APICALIS, new species. 



Body-coloration brownish; wings hyaline tipped with brown. 



Male. — Length, 5-5.8 mm.; wing, 5.7-6.3 mm. 



Female. — Length about 7.4 mm ; wing, 7 mm. Rostrum moderately 

 elongated, much longer than the head, dark brownish black, the 

 palpi dark brown. Antennae dark brown, rather elongated, in the 

 male if bent backward, extending to the base of the abdomen; 

 shorter in the female, extending about to the wing-root. Head dark 

 brown. 



Thoracic coloration varying from light to rather dark brown 

 without distinct stripes, the pleura brighter colored, more yellowish. 

 Halteres light brown. Legs, coxae brownish yellow; trochanters 

 light brown; femora light brown basally passing into dark brown 



