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Phoniomyia scotinomus, new species. 



$ . — Proboscis long and slender, very slightly enlarged towards the apex, 

 black ; palpi very short ; clypeus yellow-brown ; occiput dark scaled, the vertex 

 and dividing line of the eyes obscurely silvery ; prothoracic lobes prominent, approx- 

 imated, clothed with dark scales with a blue and violet luster ; mesonotum clothed 

 with dark-brown scales with slight bronzy luster, faintly greenish in certain lights ; 

 scales of the scutellum like those of the mesonotum ; setre of the scutellum dark ; 

 metanotum deep brown with a group of setae towards the apex ; abdomen black 

 scaled above, with faint bluish luster, beneath lustrous whitish, the colors separated 

 in a straight line on the sides, apex of the abdomen dilated ; legs dark scaled above, 

 beneath brassy, the middle legs silvery beneath on the third and fourth joints, hind 

 legs silvery beneath on the last joint. Length, 3 mm. 



9 . — Similar to the male. 



Three specimens, Boqueron River, Panama, and Tabernilla, Canal 

 Zone, Panama (August Busck, collector), bred from larvce in water 

 in the leaves of Bromelias. 



Ty/e. — No. 10855, U. S. National Museum. 



Phoniomyia philophone, new species. 



Proboscis long and slender, nearly as long as the body, very slightly enlarged 

 towards the apex ; clypeus prominent, pitchy brown, covered with fine gray pubes- 

 cence; tori of the antennae black with fine silvery pubescence ; occiput behind the 

 eyes broadly silver scaled ; palpi very short, black ; vertex with green and blue 

 iridescent scales ; antennal segments long, the whorls of hairs consist of a few long 

 ones, and being well removed from each other do not give a densely plumose 

 appearance ; prothoracic lobes large, prominent, collar-like, closely approximate but 

 not contiguous, clothed with violet and blue metallic scales and with many coarse 

 bristles on the front margin ; mesonotum rather short, stout, clothed with dark 

 olivaceous and green scales ; metanotum short, globose, with two longitudinal 

 impressions, pitchy brown, a group of setae beyond the middle ; abdomen long and 

 slender, compressed, clothed above with blackish scales with an obscure greenish 

 luster, beneath with white scales, divided on the sides in a straight line ; legs long 

 and slender, dark brown with bronzy luster, a whitish reflection on the front tarsi. 

 Length, 3 mm. 



Twenty specimens, Tabernilla, Canal Zone, Panama (x\ugust 

 Busck, collector), bred from larvae in leaves of Bromelias. 

 Tyfie. — No. 10852, U. S. National Museum. 



Wyeomyia codiocampa, new species. 



9 . — Proboscis rather short and stout, thickened towards the apex, black scaled ; 

 clypeus large, globose, brown with minute gray pubescence ; palpi very short, black 

 scaled ; eyes divided by a narrow white-scaled strip ; occiput clothed with brownish 

 iridescent scales, the ocular margin narrowly white and forming a triangular patch 

 between the eyes ; prothoracic lobes large, prominent, well separated, the basal 

 portion silvery white, tip also white, the central portion blackish brown ; mesonotum 

 short, convex, clothed with bronzy brown scales ; seta? of the scutellum ferruginous 



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