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Genus Rhipidia Meigen. 

 1818. Rhipidia Meigen, System. Beschr., vol. 1, p. 153. 



Rhipidia domestica angustifrons Alexander (1912). 

 Alexander, Bull. Brook. Ent. Soc, vol. 8, pp. 16, 17; pi. 1, fig. 9. 



One 9 from Callanga, Peru. 



Rhipidia, sp. 



One 9 from San Bernardino, Paraguay. Fiebrig, 1908. It 

 is allied to domestica but the antennae are entirely lacking and 

 closer identification is impossible. 



Rhipidia, sp. 



One 9 from Asuncion, Paraguay. Yezenyi, 1904. 



Genus Geranomyia Haliday. 

 1833. Geranomyia Haliday; Entomol. Magaz., vol. 1, p. 154. 



Geranomyia valida Loew. (PI. XIV, Fig. 2). 



1851. Aporosa valida Loew.; Linnaea Entomologica, vol. 5, p. 398. 



One 9 , Concepcion, Chile, 1903 ; P. Herbst, coll. 



A few additional details to Loew's characterization may be 

 given. Proboscis split at tip, each lip recurved, the palpi very 

 short and stout. Legs stout, coxae, trochanters and femora yel- 

 lowish, not darkened ; tibiae yellowish brown ; tarsi, segments 

 1-3, brownish yellow, narrowly brownish at the tip of each, 

 segments 4 and 5, brown. Wing venation (see plate XIV, fig. 

 2), Length, about 6.5 mm. ; wing, 9.6 mm. ; rostrum, 2.2 mm. 



Geranomyia numenius, sp. n. (PI. XIV, Fig. 3). 



Rostrum long, thorax reddish brown, the praescutum with three pale 

 vittse and a dark brown median stripe ; femora with a dark subapical 

 ring; wings spotted, Sc long. 



Female. — Length (excluding rostrum), 9.3 mm.; wing, 9.2 mm.; pro- 

 boscis, 6.2 mm. 



Proboscis dark brownish black; antennas almost black, the flagellar 

 segments elongate-cylindrical ; front, vertex and occiput grey. 



Pronotum light grey with a broad dark brown median vitta. 

 ■Mesonotal praescutum rich reddish brown divided by three pale longi- 

 tudinal whitish grey stripes, the median one broad and bisected by a 

 narrow dark brown line which begins just behind the front margin of 

 the sclerite and runs to the suture, the pale lateral vittae narrow, en- 

 larged at their anterior end before the pseudosutural fovea and run to 

 the suture; scutum, scutellum and postnotum rich reddish brown, the 

 latter with a paler median line. Pleurae pale testaceous brown, darker 



