6 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 



Genus LEMMAMYIA Dyar 



Lemmamyia asullepta Theobald. 



The type of Theobald's Dendromyia asullepta is identical 

 with Lemmamyia methysticus Dyar and Knab, as suggested by 

 Dyar (1919), Synonymy: 



Dendromyia asullepta Theobald, Mon. Culic, iii, 315, 1903. 

 Liniatus methysticus Dyar and Knab, Smiths. Misc. Colls., 



Quart. Iss., Hi, 266, 1909. 

 Dendromyia asullepta Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 587, 588, 1910. 

 Limatus methysticus Howard, Dyar and Knab. Mosq. N. & Cent. 



Amer. & W. Ind., iii, 48, 1915. 

 Lemmamyia methysticus Dyar, Ins. Ins. Mens., vii, 140. 1919. 



Theobald does not mention the white on the mid legs, but it 

 is there, although the specimen was a pale one and mounted 

 in such a way that it could only be seen with difficulty. It is 

 present, however, on the three last segments of the mid legs 

 on one side. The abdominal colors are separated in a straight 

 line, the first abdominal segment is clothed with dark scales 

 and not with golden scales as in pseudomethysticus Bonne - 

 Wepster and Bonne. The prothoracic lobes have yellowish 

 golden scales. The mesonotal pattern is distinct. 



Genus DYARINA, new genus 



Theobald's female type of Phoniomyia longirostris does not 

 show anything of lateral white abdominal patches, although 

 these are mentioned in his description. He took the character 

 from a perfect male which he combined with the female, but 

 which shows the abdominal colors deeply incised. It looks 

 much more brilliant than the female and probably belongs to 

 another species. The mount of the genitalia of this specimen 

 shows it to be a Dodecamyia. But Dyar received a longirostris 

 male from Brazil with a quite dififerent clasp filament, which 

 he made the type of his genus Phoniomyia, based an genitalic 

 characters. Now there is just as little chance that this male 

 corresponds to Theobald's female type as there is with Theo- 

 bald's male. The safest way to proceed is to leave Theobald's 

 name PJioniomyia longirostris for the rubbed female and to 



