274 NORTH AMERICAN ANTHOMYIID FLIES OF GENUS PHAONIA 



Type. — Male, allotype, female, and three male and four female 

 paratypes, Pulaski, Illinois, July 2, 1910, taken in a meadow, 

 (C. A. Hart). Paratypes, one female, Vinton, Ohio; one female, 

 Columbus, Ohio, (J. S. Hine). All in collection of Illinois 

 Natural History Survey. 



Phaonia nigricauda M alloc- h 



Phaonia nigricauda ]\Ialloch, Trans. Amer. Ent. Hoc, xliv, p. 26S, 191S. 



This species has the eyes of the male more widety separated 

 than does any other of the apicata group except pallida Stein. 

 The orbits are setulose to anterior ocellus, and the abdomen of 

 the male is narrow and subcylindrical, almost as in pallida. 



I have seen this species only from California— Berkeley, Santa 

 Cruz, and Redwood Canyon. 



Phaonia flava Stein 



Phaonia flara Stein, Arch, fiir Naturges., 1918, abt. A, heft 9, p. 6, 1920. 



This species closely resembles the foregoing in habitus, size, 

 and color, differing most noticeably in the color of the head. 

 Profile of head as in figure 14. 



I have no males of flava for comparison of this sex with that 

 of nigricauda. 



Length, 6 mm. 



Stein had, I Ijelieve, two species confused in his material when 

 he described flava, the specimens from California being nigri- 

 cauda and the others, from Washington, what we ma}' justi- 

 fiably accept as flava. I take this view because I do not believe 

 that, if my surmise is correct and he really had two species 

 confused, I am entitled to sink his species as a synonym of 

 nigricauda and rename the specimens which arc evidently dif- 

 ferent. It is evident that the description was very largelj' 

 drawn from a Californian male, but the first locality mentioned 

 is Friday Harl^or, Washington, where nigricauda so far as 1 

 know does not occur. 



I have a number of females of flava, as here limited, from 

 Washington state: Tacoma, Mount Constitution, Chatcolet, 

 Piedemont, and Friday Harbor; and one from Forest Grove, 

 Oregon. 



