. The Canadian entomologist. Insects; Entomology. 80 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST Holoiype, , Ladrones. D. T. Fulloway, coll. No. 1384. Dicranomyia guttula, sp. n. (Fig. 9.) Brown; wings hyaline with gray spots along the veins; Sc short ending opposite the origin of Rs. Female.—Length —5 mm; wing, — mm. Rostrum, palpi and antenna? dark brown. Head grey. Thoracic pra?scutum rich yellowish brown with indications of darker markings behind; scutum similar with an indistinct darker spot on either lobe in front; postnotum light brown with a faint whitish bloom. Pleurae brown, the dorsal
. The Canadian entomologist. Insects; Entomology. 80 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST Holoiype, , Ladrones. D. T. Fulloway, coll. No. 1384. Dicranomyia guttula, sp. n. (Fig. 9.) Brown; wings hyaline with gray spots along the veins; Sc short ending opposite the origin of Rs. Female.—Length —5 mm; wing, — mm. Rostrum, palpi and antenna? dark brown. Head grey. Thoracic pra?scutum rich yellowish brown with indications of darker markings behind; scutum similar with an indistinct darker spot on either lobe in front; postnotum light brown with a faint whitish bloom. Pleurae brown, the dorsal sclerites, including those of the neck, around to the halteres, dark brown. Hal teres light brown, the knob darker. Legs with the coxae and trochanters yellow, femora dull yellow, tibiae and tarsi light brown. Wings hyaline, the veins with abundant grey spots at short intervals producing a speckled appearance. Venation as in the figure—Sc short ending just beyond the origin of Rs, Sc2 being exactly opposite the origin of Rs, cell 1st M2 long and narrow, the outer deflection of Mz long and arcuated, over twice as long as cross-vein m, basal deflection of Cm just beyond the fork of Fig. 9.—Dicranomyia guttula. Abdominal tergites brown, tip of the abdomen, including ovi- positor, yellowish; sternites yellowish. Habitat.—Lor Marquez, South Africa. Holotype, 9 , Lor Marquez, Africa, C. W. Howard, coll. No. 14. Paratype, 9 , topotypic. From D. irrorata Enderlein (Zool. Jahrb., vol. 32, pt. 1, p. 74, 75, fig. Vi) this species difi"ers in having Sc short and in having the spots on the wings confined to the veins. Genus Libnotes Westwood. 1876. Libnotes Westwood; Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 505. Libnotes picta, sp. n. (Fig. 10.) Colour yellow, the thoracic dorsum with six rounded black. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not
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