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stout setae near the middle and numerous setae of variable length 

 clothing the face of the enlargement; terminal segment produced, 

 with a length about five times its diameter and at the distal fourth 



Fig". 6'j Portion of male genitalia of Johnsonomyia 

 rubra, enlarged. (Original) 



a distinct constriction. Palpi ; first segment stout, incrassate, with 

 a length three times its diameter, the second as long as the first, 

 rectangular, the third a little shorter than the second, the fourth 

 slender, with a length more than twice the third. Mesonotum shin- 

 ing brown, the submedian lines rather thickly haired. Scutellum 

 dark brown, postscutellum yellowish brown. Abdomen a variable 

 dark brown and yellowish brown, the dorsum of the first segment 

 and that of the fourth to eighth fuscous yellowish ; genitalia fus- 

 cous. Wings hyaline, costa dark brown, venation practically as in 

 J . rubra, though the wing is markedly smaller. Halteres yel- 

 lowish, fuscous subapically ; pleurae and coxae a variable fuscous 

 yellowish ; femora, tibiae and the 2 basal tarsal segments a dark 

 fuscous yellowish, almost black, the tip of the second tarsal seg- 

 ment, the third and fourth 'white, the fifth yellow tinted apically ; 

 claws rather long, stout, slightly curved, simple, pulvilli rudimen- 

 tary. Genitalia ; basal clasp segment short, stout ; terminal clasp 

 segment very short, greatly swollen and with a long, chitinous 

 tooth apically. (Plate ii, figure 7.) Type Cecid. 1237. 



Johnsonomyia cincta Felt 

 191 2 Felt, E. P. N! Y. Ent. Soc. Jour., 20:103 



A large, strikingly colored midge taken on the Polochic river, 

 Guatemala, February 22, 1912, by Messrs Barber and Schwarz. 



Chastomera Skuse 



1888 Skuse, F. A. A. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales Proc, 3:112 

 1892 Rubsaamen, E. H. Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., zi '-ZZZ 

 1900 Kieffer, J. J, Soc. Ent. Fr. Ann., 69:448 

 191 1 Felt, E. P. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Jour., 19:37 



