272 NORTH AMERICAN ANTHOMYIID FLIES OF GENUS PHAONIA 



Type. — Male, and one male paratype, Florida (Maynard). 

 Allotype, female, Uvalde, Texas, November 1, 1915. Paratype, 

 female, Uvalde, Texas, November 18, 1915, (Bishopp). All in 

 U. S. N. M. 



Phaonia limbinervis Stein 



Phaonia limhincrrii; Stein, Ann. Nat. IMus. Hungary, xvi, p. 208, 1918. 



I have before me a male and female, which agree so closely 

 with Stein's description of this species that I can not doubt 

 their identity with it. The species, which very closely resembles 

 texensis, differs only as indicated in the key to species. 



This species was originally described from Mexico, and after- 

 wards recorded by Stein (1920) from California. 



The two specimens I have examined are from Lava, New 

 Mexico, April 11, 1898, (Cockerell), and Tempe, Arizona, 

 March 8, 1914, (Wildermuth). 



Phaonia aberrans Malloch 



Phaonia aberrans Malloch, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxxii, p. 208, 1919. 



This species differs from its allies in having an additional 

 strong bristle on the posterodorsal surface of the hind tilna basad 

 of the calcar. The apical posterodorsal bristle is as strong as 

 the dorsal one. 



Length, 9 to 10 mm. 



Originally described from one male taken by W. L. McAtee 

 at Beltsville, Maryland, I have before me the type and another 

 male, taken at Riverton, New Jersey, April 17, 1905, which 

 belong to the collection of the United States National Museum. 



Phaonia alaskensis new species 



Female. — Black, distinctly shining, head, thorax and abdomen with grayish 

 pruinescence. Frons, when seen from above, velvety blackish brown; frontal 

 lunule silvery white; antennae black, basal two segments yellowish; palpi 

 yellow, broadly infuscated apically. Thorax quadrivittate. Abdomen with- 

 out distinct markings, with a slight violaceous tinge. Legs including coxae 

 reddish yellow, tarsi fuscous. Wings clear, veins brown, yellow basally. 

 Calyptrae and halteres yellow. 



Eyes indistinctly hairy; frons a little over one-third of the head-width; 

 ■orbits narrow, the bristles irregular, usually two outwardly curved on upper 

 third, some setidose hairs laterad of the bristles; i)arafacial at base of antemiae 

 not as wide as third antenual segment, narrowed below; cheek barely as high 

 as width of third antennal segment, with two or three series of bristles along 



