PHRO:jfIA. Ill 



Dziedzicki's elaborate monograph is recommended.*" The flies are 

 found in woods and among shrubs, usually in spring and autumn. 

 The two Oriental species described here may be separated thus: — 



Yellowish species simplex, sp. n. 



Blackish species semifiimata, sp. n. 



6-4. Phronia simplex, sp. nov. 



5 . Head yellowish, vertex brown, with whitish pubescence, 

 antennce light brown, scape and base of flagellum yellow. Thorax 

 rather bright light brown, with microscopic pale pubescence, and 

 a greyish reflection towards the lateral margins ; three dorsal 

 stripes very faintly indicated ; lateral margins with stiff bristles. 

 Scutellum concolorous, with signs of two broad darker .stripes ; 

 tw^o strong apical and two smaller subapical bristles. Metanotum 

 and sides very light brownish yellow. Abdomen light brown, 

 minutely pubescent, hind margins of segments narrowly pale yellow. 

 Genitalia light brown, slender, with two elongated terminal lamellse. 

 Legs pale yellow, tibise and tarsi very pale brownish. Wings very 

 pale yellowish grey ; halteres pale yellow. 



Length. 3| millim. 



Described from a single example in the Indian Museum from 

 Assam. 



Qb. Phronia semifumata, sp. nov. (PI. Ill, fig. 10.) 



S . Head black, with very short scattered grey hairs ; proboscis 

 blackish, tip brownish yellow ; palpi yellowish. Autenual scape 

 yellow, 1st flagellar joint pale brownish, remainder black. Thorax 

 blackish ; dorsum with short pale yellow hairs and strong brownish 

 bristles around the margins ; shoulders and upper corners of 

 prothorax pale yellowish. Scutellum blackish, with four strong 

 brownish spines. Metanotum, sides of thorax and pleurte blackish, 

 the latter with a little grey reflection. Abdomen black, compressed, 

 with pale hairs. Genitalia rather large, rounded; a small dorsal 

 bilobed plate and a ventral plate; the basal joint of claspers large, the 

 2nd joint consisting of three elongated appendages (which are not 

 easily seen, being curled up on one another), one of which at least 

 is covered wdth short bristles. Legs : fore coxae pale yellowish, 

 posterior coxaj blackish with grey reflections ; femora and tibiae 

 pale yellowy tarsi blackish towards the tips. Wings yellowish 

 grey, a little darker yellow on the anterior margin. Venation 

 normal. Halteres pale yellow, clubs large, oval. 



Ltngth 3 millim. 



Described from one male, taken at Tonglu, Darjiling district, 

 21.iv. 10 (C. W. Beebe). 



Type in the Indian Museum, 



* Hor. Soc. Eut. Ross, xxiii . (1889), 



