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beyond the base; tibiae and tarsi dark brown. Wings hyaline, the 

 tip narrowly brown; stigma distinct, oval, light brown; veins dark 

 brown; venation, see plate 43, fig. 15. 



Abdominal tergites dark brown, sternites light brown; valves of 

 the female ovipositor very long and slender. 



Habitat. — Java. 



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

 (Bryant and Palmer). 



Allotype. — Female, topotypic. 



Paratypes. — One female, topotypic; 1 male, topotypic, altitude 

 8,000 feet. 



Type.— Cat. No. 19017, U.S.N.M. 



From R. Tcamhangani de Meijere,^ from Java, R. ferruginosa 

 Brunetti,^ R. unicolor Brunetti,^ and R. inconspicua Brunetti;* the 

 three last-named species from British India, this new form differs in 

 the dark apex to the wings. 



EURHAMPHIDIA, new subgenus. 



Rostrum elongated as in RTiampTiidia Meigen; differs from RJiam- 

 pTiidia, s. s., in the fusion of i?2 + 3 with R^+^ for a considerable 

 distance beyond the radio-median cross-vein. This character occurs 

 in no other member of this tribe of crane-flies with the exception 

 of the genus Rhampliolimnohia, new genus, described below. 



Type. — RhampJiidia niveitarsis Skuse. 



RHAMPHIDIA (EURHAMPHIDIA) NIVEITARSIS Skuse. 



Rhamphidia niveitarsis Skuse, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, ser. 2, vol. 4, 1889, 

 pp. 791, 792. 



Wings subhy aline, stigma oval, broAvn, veins brown; body-color- 

 ation light yellowish brown ; abdomen with the segments tipped with 

 yellowish; legs with the knees and the tarsi white. 



Male. — Length, 5.6-6,6 mm.; wing, 6.4-7.1 mm. 



Female. — Length, 6.8-7 mm.; wing, 7-7.2 mm. Rostrum rather 

 elongated, longer than the head, brown, the palpi dark brown. Anten- 

 nae short, if bent backward, not extending to the wing-root, the 

 flagellar segments very short with numerous long pale hairs. Head 

 brownish gray. 



Thorax dull light yellow, the dorsum with a narrow dark brown 

 median line; lobes of the scutum brown; postnotum brownish; in 

 some specimens the thorax is darker, light brown, even the pleura | 

 being of this color. Halteres brown, paler at the base. Legs, coxae 

 and trochanters dull brownish yellow; femora light yellowish brown, 



» Tijd. voor Ent., vol. 56, 1913, pp. 346, 347, pi. 17, fig. 13. 



8 Fauna of British India, Diptera Nematocera, 1912, p. 41S, pi. 8, fig. 8; pi. 11, fig. 11. 



» Idem, p. 419. 



« Idem, pp. 419, 420. 



