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Griphoneuroider, new subgenus 



I erect this subgenus for the reception of those species from the 

 Orient which have been heretofore placed in Grfphoneura, and in- 

 clude with them three others described as species of Sapromyza and 

 Lauxania. I distinguish the subgenus from Gri'phoneyra by the 

 costal armature, which in the latter is similar to that of Sapromyza^ 

 by the presence of a fore femoral comb, and the long ocellar bristles. 

 There is a flattened area on the posterior surface of the fore meta- 

 tarsus of the males of the genus Gri/phonemra which I have examined 

 that is not present in any male of Gri-phoneuroides I have seen. 

 The apex of the wing of the subgenotype is shown in Figure 37. 



Suhc/en otype. — Griphon eura testaceipes Kertesz. 



The included species occur mostly in New Guinea, but wall-acei 

 Malloch is from INIysol, and it may be that some species will yet be 

 found in the Philippines. 



POECILOMYZA, new subgenus 



This subgenus is distinguished by the presence of several short 

 bristles on the posterior side of mid tibia, the absence of the pre- 

 apical dorsal bristle on hind tibia, and, in the male at least, by the 

 compressed fore tibia. The seventh wing vein is evident almost to 

 margin of wing. Otherwise similar to Homoneura vera. 



Siibgenotype. — Phoheticomyia hoettcheri Frey. 



HOMONEURA (POECILOMYZA) BOETTCHERI (Frey) 



Phobeticomyia hoettcheri Frey, Acta Soc. pro Fauna et Flora Fennica, vol. 

 56, p. 24, 1927. 



Male. — Head black; frontal orbits and triangle densely gray 

 dusted, the orbital bristles inserted in small black dots, anterior 

 margin of frons narrowly j'ellow, the pale color connecting with a 

 gray mark touching each eye, the orbits diverging from eyes an- 

 teriorly; face whitish dusted, with tAvo black spots at middle; each 

 orbit with two pale gray dusted marks; antennae fuscous, third 

 segment largely yellowish; arista gray dusted. Abdomen black, 

 shining. Legs black, tarsi testaceous, darkened apically. "Wings 

 fuscous, with a hj'^aline mark on each side of, and above, and below, 

 inner cross vein, a narrow hyaline fascia extending across wing before 

 apex of second vein and beyond outer cross vein, and three hyaline 

 spots, or an interrupted fascia, between it and apex of wing. 

 Halteres yellow. 



All frontal bristles long, anterior orbitals shortest; arista plumose; 

 face slightl}' convex. Thorax with three pairs of postsutural dorso- 

 centrals, six series of intradorsocentral hairs, one pair oi prescutellar 



