270 NORTH AMERICAN ANTHOMYIID FLIES OF GENUS PHAONIA 



Type.— Male; Urbana, Illinois, August 1, 1916, (Malloch), 

 [Illinois Natural History Survey]. Allotype. — ^Female; Same 

 locality, September 5, 1915, at sap exuding from tree trunk, 

 (Malloch). Paratypes. — Two males, Glen House, New Hamp- 

 shire, June 11, 1916; one female, Mount Washington, New 

 Hampshire, June 30, 1913, (C. W. Johnson); two males, Fall 

 Church, Virginia, April 13 and May 3, (N. Banks); one female, 

 Wauseon, Ohio, August 18, 1914, (J. S. Hine) ; one male, Viento, 

 Oregon, July 1, 1917, (A. L. Melander); two male, Moscow 

 Mountain, Idaho, July 4, 1911, (J. M. Aldrich) ; one male, 

 Hoqulam, Washington, June 3, 1904, (Burke). 



Phaonia fuscicauda Malloch 



Phaonia fuscicauda Malloch, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, xliv, p. 269, 1918. 



Phaonia fuscinervis Stein, Arch, fiir Naturges., 1918, abt. A, heft 9, 1920. 



Male and female. — Head testaceous yellow, upper half of occiput fuscous 

 gray pruineseent; third antennal segment largely brown; palpi testaceous, 

 jellow. Thorax testaceous yellow, disc of mesonotum, and scutellum, the 

 metanotum, and some poorly defined areas on pleura fuscous. Abdomen 

 testaceous yellow, fuscous at apex, colored with gray pruinescence, and with 

 a brownish or fuscous dorsocentral vitta which is most distinct on basal three 

 tergites. Wings clear, both cross-veins narrowly infuscated. Cah'ptrae and 

 halteres yellow. 



Male. — Eyes sparsely but distinctly haired, separated at narrowest part of 

 frons by little more than width of anterior ocellus; orbits setulose to a little 

 above middle, where they are contiguous; parafacial narrower than third 

 antennal segment; cheek about twice as high as width of third antennal 

 segment; longest hairs on arista longer than width of third antennal segment. 

 Thorax with two pairs of fine presutural acrostichals; postsutural dorsocentrals 

 three; prealar long; hj-popleura bare. Basal sternite bare, fifth with a deep 

 central excision. Fore tibia unarmed at middle; mid femur with about six 

 bristles on basal half of posteroventral surface; mid tibia with two or three 

 posterior bristles; hind femur with long bristles on anteroventral surface and 

 short ])ristles on basal half of posteroventral; hind til)ia with two or three 

 anteroventral and anterodorsal bristles; calcar about one-fourth from apex. 



Female. — Frons over one-third of the head-width. 



Length, 7 to 8 mm. 



Originally described from California. I have before me two 

 males and one female from Kamiac Butte, Washington, and one 

 female from Brooklyn, California, Stein described fuscinervis 

 fiom Friday Harbor, Washington. 



