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Holotype, $ , Coroico, Bolivia. 



Allotype, 9 , with the type. 



Paratypes, 40 $ 2 , Bartica, Brit. Guiana (H. S. Parish, 

 coil.). 



Types in the Hungarian National Museum ; paratypes in au- 

 thor's collection. 



G. cinereinota is allied to diversa O. S. of the Eastern U. S., 

 but bas a long Sc, and a different thoracic- and wing-pat- 

 tern. 



Geranomyia scolopax, sp. n. 



Rostrum short, barely exceeding the antennae in length ; thoracic no- 

 tum greyish brown with dark brown stripes; legs uniform; wings hya- 

 line with three brown costal spots. 



Male. — Length, 5.3 mm. ; wing, 7 mm. 



Proboscis short, scarcely longer than the antennae, dark brown ; an- 

 tennae dark brownish black; head grey. 



Mesothoracic praescutum greyish brown, with an ill-defined, darker 

 median stripe and the lateral margin of the sclerite dark brown, this 

 color being the continuation of the dark propleurae, scutum dark 

 brown; scutellum and postnotum a little lighter. Pleurae light brown 

 with a broad greyish brown band extending the length of the thorax 

 above the base of the halteres and below the wing root, becoming con- 

 fluent with the postnotum. Halteres pale, the knob a little brown. 



Legs, coxae and trochanters yellow, fore femora dull yellow, tibiae 

 and tarsi brown; middle and hind legs brown excepting the coxae and 

 trochanters which are yellow. 



Wings hyaline, or nearly so, with a distinct oval, brown stigma, a 

 brown cloud at the fork of Sc including the base of Rs, cell Sc with a 

 brown cloud at one-half its length. Venation : Sc rather short, end- 

 ing a little beyond the origin of Rs; Sc2 at the tip of Sci ; basal deflec- 

 tion of Cut at the fork of .1/. 



Abdominal tergites rich brown, the extreme base of each segment 

 pale ; the lateral edge and an indistinct median vitta brown ; sternites 

 brown. 



Holotype, $ , Callanga, Peru, in the Hungarian National 

 Museum. 



Closest to cinereinota, sp. n., but with distinct spots on the 

 wing and with the median praescutal stripe ill-defined. 



Genus Peripheroptcra Schiner. 

 1866. Peripheroptcra Schiner; Verh. Zool. bot. ges. Wien ; vol. 16. 

 P- 933- 



