Mr. J. R. Malloch on Exotic MuscariJse. 235 



Asiatic Species. 



Subfamily Psaoniin^. 



Phaonia atronitens, sp. n. 



Male. — Black, shining. Frons, orbits, face, and cheeks 

 with white pruinescence. Thorax indistinctly vittate, the 

 dorsum with faint greyisli pruinescence. Abdomen slightly 

 greyish pruinescent, with a black dorso-central vitta which 

 is slightly dilated at apex of each tergite. Legs black. 

 Wings clear, veins fuscous, paler basally. Calyptrse white. 

 Halteres fuscous. 



Eyes densely long-haired ; narrowest part of frons a little 

 wider than distance across posterior ocelli ; orbits with long 

 fine bristles almost to anterior ocellus ; interfrontalia 

 distinct on its entire length ; third autennal segment at 

 least three times as long as second, its apex extending 

 almost to mouth ; arista with its longest hairs nearly as 

 long as width of third autennal segment ; parafacial not as 

 wide at base of antennae as width of third autennal segment, 

 narrowed below ; cheek as high as width of third autennal 

 segment; palpi slender; proboscis stout and short. Thorax 

 with three or four pairs of very fine, long presutural acro- 

 stichal bristles ; prealar absent ; postsutural dorso-centrals 3. 

 Abdomen narrowly ovate ; hypopygium small, concealed ; 

 fifth sternite with a broad rounded posterior emargination; 

 each sternite, including fifth, with a long fine bristle at each 

 side apically. Fore tibia unarmed at middle ; fore tarsus 

 slender, much longer than tibia ; mid-tibia with two or three 

 postero-dorsal bristles ; hind femur with a series of fine 

 bristles on antero-ventral surface, and some shorter bristles 

 on basal half of postero-ventral ; hind tibia with two antero- 

 dorsal and three or four antero-ventral bristles, the calcar 

 short. Costal thorn small; veins 3 and 4 divergent 

 apically. 



Female. — Differs from the male in having the eyes very 

 short-haired, and the frons over one-third of the head-width. 



Length 5-6 mm. 



Type, male, allotype, and four male paratypes, Gulmarg, 

 Kashmir, 1913, 8500 feet (F. W. Thomson). 



Pogonomyia fu7nipe7inis, sp. n. 

 Male. — Black, shining. Head with whitish pruinescence 



