816 CHARLES PauLt ALEXANDER 
two basal parts ellipsoidal, strongly shiny, rust-yellow, somewhat darker at tips, the apical 
parts small and knotlike, bluntly rounded; segment bearing on dorsum a weak triangular 
piece at its base; between apical parts of genitalia are inserted two small chitinized shields; 
on venter, between basal parts, sheath of penis is inserted. 
Female pupa.— Body resembling that of male, but longer and somewhat stouter (length 
10.5 mm., diameter 1.8 mm). Leg sheaths extending to just beyond midlength of abdominal 
segment 2. Seventh abdominal segment shortened and somewhat narrowed, on dorsum 
largely pale, with a narrow chitinized margin only on lateral parts, so that the unchitinized 
part forms a triangle with the apex directed backward; on sternum this segment almost 
completely chitinized, rust-yellow, only a small triangular area at base on either side remain- 
ing uncolored; chitinized plate separated from plate of next segment only by an incomplete 
segmentation, swollen, and bearing two longitudinal impressions. Eighth segment bearing 
on its dorsal surface the dorsal valves of ovipositor,.fused at their base, chitinized thruout, 
rust-yellow in color; segment bearing on its ventral surface a depressed conical chitinized. 
plate of a rust-yellow color, and with transverse impressed wrinkles; on either side a small, 
dark, chitinized, lower valve of ovipositor. Other characters as in male. (When the pupae 
are placed in alcohol, the green of the metathorax and the abdomen disappears and is 
replaced by a yellowish white color.) 
Pupae were collected in large numbers in a pine wood near Hammern 
in Freistadt (upper Austria) in the latter days of August, 1882. The 
pupae live in pine stumps, near the ground, where the bark has been 
removed, more especially in situations where the wood is somewhat sappy 
and not yet completely decayed. Those found were not deep in the wood. 
Their presence was discovered by finding the teneral adults on and near 
a stump, and many cast skins of the pupae projecting horizontally, the 
caudal end of the body, up to the leg sheaths, adhering to the wood. No 
emergence holes were found on the cut surface of the stump. The adults 
at first have a very long, pale abdomen, which is of a verdigris color, 
most intensive at the base and paler toward the tip. The pupae that 
were found transformed as adults in from one to three days. 
Genus Geranomyia Haliday (Gr. crane + fly) 
1833 Geranomyia Hal. Ent. Mag., vol. 1, p. 154. 
1835 Limnobiorhynchus Westw. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 4, p. 683 (spurious name). 
1838 Aporosa Macq. Dipt. Exot., vol. 1, part 1, p. 62. 
1865. Plettusa Phil. Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 15, p. 597. 
Geranomyia is a rather extensive genus including about eighty species, 
which are most abundant in the tropics of America, Asia, and Australia. 
On the African continent the genus is apparently less common. The 
adult flies have an elongate rostrum which is used for sucking nectar 
