416 Mr. J. R. Malloch on E.votic Muscaiidoe. 



front of spiracle. Abdomen ovate ; basal sternite hairy. 

 Fore tibia without a median posterior bristle ; fore tarsus 

 much longer than fore tibia, slender, no lontr sensory hairs 

 along posterior side of basal segment; mid-tibia with four 

 posterior bristles ; hind femur with a series of antero-ventral 

 bristles, and some long fine bristles on basal half of postero- 

 ventral surface ; hind tibia with two antero-dorsal and three 

 or four antero-ventral bristles. Wings normal. 



Length 7'o mm. 



I'l/pe, Kashmir, Gulmag, 8500 feet, summer 1913 (F. W. 

 Thomson) . 



Dedicated to the collector. 



Phaonia kashmirensis, sp. n. 



Female. — General colour as in the preceding species. All 

 tibiae and the hind femora reddish yellow, the latter infus- 

 cated apically. 



Eyes short-haired; frons less than one-third of the head- 

 width, with normal bristling, the interfroutalia almost bare 

 on sides ; parafacial wider than third antennal segment ; 

 vibrissa! angle but little produced; longest hairs on arista 

 distinctly longer than width of third antennal segment ; 

 proboscis stouter than usual (slender and elongate in thom- 

 soni). Thorax with four pairs of postsutural dorso-centrals, 

 in other respects as in thomsoni. Fore tibia without a median 

 posterior bristle ; fore tarsus slender, longer than fore tibia, 

 with some outstanding sensory hairs along the posterior side 

 of basal segment ; mid-tibia with two posterior bristles ; 

 hind femur with a series of antero-ventral bristles; none on 

 postero-ventral surface ; hind tibia with two antero-dorsal 

 and two or three antero-ventral bristles. Wings normal. 



Length 8 mm. 



Type, Kashmir, Gulmarg, 8500 feet, summer 1913 [F. W, 

 Thomsun). 



This species belongs to the same group as errans, I\reigen, 

 while the preceding one belongs to a group intermediate 

 between that group and the one containing serva, Fallen. 



Phaonia flavomaculata, sp. n. 



Female. — Shining black, with greyish pruinescence. An- 

 tennae black, second segment brownish ; palpi brownish 

 yellow. Thorax quadiivittate, humeri, anterior third of 

 pleura, and the scutellum testaceous yellow. Basal abdo- 

 minal tergite yellow except along posterior margin and on a 

 narrow line in centre, second with two round yellow spots 



