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Genus LIMNOPHILA Macquart. 

 Limnophila Macquart, Suite a Buffon, Dipteres, vol. 1, 1834, p. 95. 

 LIMNOPHILA AMIGA, new species. 



Body-coloration shiiiy brown; wings brown; cell B^ very short, 

 cell 21^ absent. 



Hale. — Length about 5.5 mm. ; wing, 6 mm. Rostrum short, dull 

 bro\\Ti, the palpi brownish black. Antennae rather short, the seg- 

 ments of the flagellum oval; antennae dark brownish black through- 

 out. Head dark brown, shiny. 



Thoracic dorsum dark brown, shiny, the scuteUum more yellow- 

 ish. Pleura dull yellow. Hal teres rather long, brown. Legs, coxae, 

 and trochanters yellow; femora dark brown, paler at the base; 

 tibiae black; tarsi broken. Wings pale brown, the stigma almost 

 indistinct; veins dark brown; venation: (see pi. 44, fig. 22), Rs very 

 long, straight; fork of R^+s short, much shorter than its petiole; 

 cross vein r far before the fork of R2+3; cell J/j absent; cells R^ and 

 i?5 in a line; basal deflection of Cu^ at about two-thirds the length 

 of cell 1st M^. 



Abdominal tergites dark brown, with a sparse gray bloom and 

 long white hairs; sternites yellow^, with a large dark brown blotch on 

 the middle of each segment at the base. 



Habitat. — Java. 



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

 (Bryant and Palmer.) 



Type.— C&t. No. 19023, U.S.N.M. " 



This insect suggests L. opaca de Meijere,^ but the cross vein r is far 

 before the fork of i?2+3, the cell R^ quite differently shaped, etc. 



LIMNOPmLA PALMERI, new species. 



Body-coloration brown; wings light brown, stigma distinct; cell 

 J/j present. 



Male. — Length, 6.3-7 mm.; wing, 7.4-7.5 mm. Rostrum brown, 

 the palpi rather darker. Antennae very short, dark brown, the 

 flagellar segments decreasing rapidly in size. Front dull yellow, 

 remainder of the head dark grayish brown. 



Thoracic dorsum dull yellow, rather shmy, with thi^ee dark brown 

 stripes which are confluent behind; the lateral stripes short, begin- 

 ning behind the pseudosutural region. Pleura dull brownish yellow. 

 Halteres rather short, light brown, the knob darker. Legs, coxae, 

 and trochanters dull yellow, femora brown, darkened beyond the 

 base, tibiae and tarsi dark brownish black. Wings light brown, the 

 stigma elongate, dark brown, veins dark brown; venation: (see pi. 44, 

 fig. 23), Rs long, gently arcuated at the base; petiole of cell R^ 



> Tijdschr. voor Entom., vol. 54, 1911, pp. 52, 53, pi. 4, fig. 44. 



