﻿NO. 
  1066. 
  SYNOPSIS 
  OF 
  NEOTROPICAL 
  LIMNOBIN^— 
  ALEXANDER. 
  537 
  

  

  mm.; 
  hind 
  leg, 
  femur, 
  7.2 
  mm.; 
  tibia, 
  8.5 
  mm,; 
  head: 
  rostrum 
  and 
  

   palpi 
  dark 
  bro%vn; 
  antennse: 
  two 
  basal 
  segments 
  dark 
  brownish- 
  

   black, 
  thirtl 
  segment 
  bright 
  yellow, 
  fourth 
  darker, 
  brownish-yellow, 
  

   remainder 
  dark 
  brown; 
  front, 
  vertex, 
  and 
  occiput 
  brown, 
  deeper, 
  

   more 
  ricldy 
  colored 
  behind, 
  yellow 
  immediately 
  surrounding 
  the 
  eyes. 
  

  

  Thorax: 
  pronotum 
  brown; 
  mesonotum: 
  prsescutum, 
  anterior 
  half 
  

   deep 
  chestnut-brown, 
  the 
  extreme 
  cephalic 
  margin 
  darker 
  brown, 
  the 
  

   posterior 
  half 
  mth 
  a 
  tawny 
  yellow 
  bloom 
  and 
  with 
  four 
  brown 
  spots; 
  

   scutum 
  pale 
  yellow 
  on 
  the 
  anterior 
  half, 
  rich 
  brown 
  behind, 
  connected 
  

   along 
  the 
  lateral 
  edge 
  of 
  the 
  sclerite 
  with 
  the 
  brown 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  

   part 
  of 
  the 
  praBscutum; 
  scutellum 
  dark 
  brown; 
  postnotum 
  light 
  bro^vIl. 
  

   Pleurse 
  pale 
  silvery 
  with 
  four 
  rich 
  brown 
  stripes, 
  the 
  most 
  dorsal 
  of 
  

   which 
  begins 
  on 
  the 
  dorsum 
  of 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  runs 
  obliquely 
  around 
  

   to 
  the 
  scutellum, 
  the 
  second, 
  or 
  epipleural, 
  begins 
  on 
  the 
  venter 
  of 
  

   the 
  pronotum, 
  continues 
  caudad, 
  obliquely, 
  to 
  the 
  postnotum, 
  where 
  

   it 
  spreads 
  over 
  the 
  sclerite, 
  the 
  third, 
  or 
  episternal, 
  band 
  runs 
  above 
  

   qhe 
  coxae; 
  sternum 
  dark 
  brown, 
  constituting 
  the 
  fourth 
  stripe. 
  Halt- 
  

   eres 
  pale 
  yellowish-brown, 
  knob 
  rather 
  darker 
  basally. 
  Legs: 
  coxae 
  

   brown 
  medially, 
  paler 
  at 
  the 
  ends 
  ; 
  trochanters 
  yellow. 
  Legs 
  all 
  simi- 
  

   lar 
  to 
  one 
  another 
  in 
  coloration 
  ; 
  femora 
  light 
  brownish-yellow 
  with 
  a 
  

   conspicuous 
  pale 
  yellow 
  apical 
  band; 
  tibiae 
  pale 
  yellow 
  throughout; 
  

   tarsi 
  pale 
  yellow, 
  the 
  terminal 
  segments 
  yellowish-orange. 
  

  

  Wings 
  hyaline, 
  with 
  two 
  irregular 
  brown 
  bands 
  across 
  the 
  wing; 
  

   the 
  proximal 
  one 
  more 
  regular 
  on 
  its 
  outer 
  margin; 
  the 
  distal 
  band 
  

   has 
  tliree 
  finger-like 
  projections 
  on 
  its 
  inner 
  margin 
  along 
  Rs, 
  M, 
  

   and 
  Cu, 
  respectively; 
  the 
  bands 
  are 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  distinctly 
  margined 
  

   with 
  darker. 
  (See. 
  fig. 
  35.) 
  

  

  Abdomen: 
  Tergum 
  light 
  brown, 
  the 
  apices 
  of 
  the 
  segments 
  very 
  

   light 
  yellow, 
  this 
  color 
  continuing 
  back 
  along 
  the 
  lateral 
  edge; 
  a 
  

   dark 
  brown 
  mecUan 
  line; 
  ninth 
  segment 
  yellow; 
  valves 
  of 
  the 
  ovi- 
  

   positor 
  reddish; 
  sternum 
  pale 
  brown, 
  very 
  pale 
  along 
  the 
  lateral 
  

   edge. 
  

  

  Habitat. 
  — 
  Holotype. 
  — 
  Female, 
  San 
  Antonio, 
  Bolivia 
  (received 
  from 
  

   Staudinger 
  and 
  Bang-Haas, 
  Germany). 
  

  

  Type. 
  — 
  In 
  author's 
  collection. 
  

  

  EPIPmiAGMA 
  FABRICII. 
  new 
  name. 
  

  

  Tipula 
  maculata 
  Fabricius, 
  Syst. 
  Antl., 
  1805, 
  p. 
  30 
  (not 
  T. 
  maculata 
  Linnaeus 
  

   nor 
  T. 
  maculata 
  Meigen) 
  (1804). 
  

  

  Limnobia 
  maculata 
  Wiedemann, 
  Dipt. 
  Exot., 
  vol. 
  1, 
  1821, 
  p. 
  16; 
  Auss. 
  Zweifl. 
  

   Ins., 
  vol. 
  1, 
  1828, 
  p. 
  29.— 
  Hunter, 
  Trans. 
  Amer. 
  Ent. 
  Soc, 
  vol. 
  26, 
  1900, 
  

   p. 
  289.— 
  Kertesz, 
  Catalogus 
  Dipteroum, 
  vol. 
  2, 
  1902, 
  p. 
  174. 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  Length, 
  10-11.5 
  mm; 
  wing, 
  14 
  mm. 
  

  

  Head: 
  rostrum 
  light 
  brown, 
  palpi 
  blackish-brown; 
  cly}3eal 
  region 
  

   and 
  anterior 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  front 
  to 
  just 
  behind 
  the 
  origin 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  