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Head capsule and mouth parts similar to those of D. stulta, already described, judging from 
the scanty material of D. badia available for study. 
Pupa.— Length, 8-8.5 mm. 
Width, d.-s., 1.1 mm. 
Depth, d.-v., 1.2 mm. 
Head, thorax, and appendages dark brown; pronotal breathing horns light yellow; abdomen 
greenish, the cauda chitinized, light brown. 
Labrum very broad, indistinctly bilobed at tip. Labial lobes large, broadly transverse, 
posterior margin almost straight across. Maxillary palpi broad, tips truncated (Plate XXIX, 
119). Lateral margins of cheeks flattened into ledges. 
Pronotal breathing horns large, flattened, in lateral outline (Plate XXIX, 118) subcircular or 
nearly so, with a row of rather widely separated breathing tubercles along margin; as viewed 
from above, horns directed proximad, so as to be contiguous at tips. A high median crest 
on mesonotum behind breathing horns. Wing sheaths ending before apex of abdominal 
segment 2. Leg sheaths ending far before apex of abdominal segment 4; as usual in this 
division, the hind legs a little the shortest, the fore legs a little the longest. Abdominal 
segments with a distinct basal welt which is thickly margined with microscopic curved hooks. 
Lateral spiracles distinct, but small and probably nonfunctional. Female cauda with sternal 
valves shorter than long tergal valves, the latter (Plate X XIX, 120) almost straight, each with 
a powerful, acute spine on lateral margin at about midlength, this directed dorsad. Near the 
margin of segment 8, on dorsum, a pair of rudimentary spiracles. 
Nepionotype.— Needham’s Glen, Ithaca, New York, April 16, 1917. (No. 5-1917.) 
Neanotype.— Type locality, May 7, 1917. 
Genus Rhipidia Meigen (Gr. a fan) 
1818 Rhipidia Meig. Syst. Beschr. Zweifl. Ins., vol. 1, p. 153. — 
1911 Ceratostephanus Brun. Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 6, p. 271. 
Larva.— Form rather stout, body terete. Abdominal sternites 1 to 7 and tergites 2 to 
7 with narrow transverse basal-welts of chitinized points. Spiracular disk with indistinct 
- lobes. Head capsule massive, not unlike that of Dicranomyia. Labrum broadly transverse. 
Mandible very broad, flattened, with only three ventral cutting teeth. Mazxilla of simple 
structure. Antenna with apical papilla or segment very flattened, disklike. Hypopharynx 
of two chitinized plates, each with about twelve comblike teeth. Mentum almost transverse 
across anterior margin, with from nine to eleven teeth, the outermost fused. 
Pupa.— Pronotal breathing horns elongate for this subtribe, about three times as long as 
broad. Abdomen with transverse bands of spicules on tergites 3 to 7 and sternites 5 to 7, 
and on extreme lateral parts of sternites 3 and 4. 
Rhipidia is a small to medium-sized genus (about thirty-five species) 
having its center of distribution in the American tropics, with some 
species occurring thruout temperate Europe and America and aless number 
in Africa and the Oriental region. ‘The genus is based on a sexual char- 
