416 Mr. J. R. Malloch 07i Exotic Muscaiicl?e. 



front of spiracle. Abdomen ovate ; basal sternite liairy. 

 Fore tibia without a median posterior bristle ; fore tarsus 

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

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

 posterior bristles ; hind femur with a series of antei-o-ventral 

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

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

 or four antero-ventral bristles. Wings normal. 



Length 7*5 mm. 



Type, Kashmir, Gulmai g, 8500 feet, summer 1913 (F. W. 

 Thomson) . 



Dedicated to the collector. 



Phaonia kashmirensis, sp. n. 



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

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

 cated apically. 



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

 width, with normal bristling, the interfroutalia almost bare* 

 on sides ; parafacial wider than third antennal segment ; 

 vibrissal angle but little produced; longest hairs on arista 

 distinctly longer than width of third antennal segment ; 

 proboscis stouter tban usual (slender and elongate in thom- 

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

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

 posterior bristle ; fore tarsus slende-r, 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 

 postcro-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. 

 T/iomsun). 



This species belongs to the same group as errans, Meigen, 

 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 qnadrivittate, 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 witii two round yellow spots 



