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The larvae were obtained in the water between the leaves of epiphytic brome- 

 liads, together with Wyeomyia vanduzeei. The habits of these two species were 

 not differentiated, and are probably very similar. The Wyeomyia antoinetta 

 were present in very small numbers, the Wyeomyia vanduzeei being common. 



Southern Florida and Cuba. 



Bstero, Florida, larva pupated May 4, issued May 10, 1906 (J. B. Van 

 Duzee) ; San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba (J. H. Pazos). 



The species was founded on a single adult specimen. On first examination 

 we referred it to Wyeomyia mitchellii, which it closely resembles, but we do not 

 find, on close inspection, the small white marks at the bases of the hind tarsal 

 joints beneath, which are present in all our Wyeomyia mitchellii, and are there- 

 fore forced to consider it a distinct species. 



Lately Dr. J. H. Pazos has sent three specimens from Cuba which appear to 

 agree entirely with the type from Florida. It seems probable, therefore, that 

 the species is a good one. 



WYEOMYIA PHILOPHONE (Dyar & Knab). 



Phoniomyia philophone Dyar & Knab, Journ. N. Y. Bnt. Soc, xt, 209, 1907. 

 Phoniomyia philophone Busck, Smiths. Misc. Colls., quart, iss., lii, 75, 1908. 

 Phoniomyia philophone Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 579, 1910. 



Oeiginal Descbiption op Phoniomyia philophone: 



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 appear- 

 ance; 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 impres- 

 sions, 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 (August Busck, collector), 

 bred from larvae in leaves of Bromelias. 



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



DESCBIPTrON OF FEMALE, MALE AND IiABVA OF WTEOMTIA PHILOPHONE: 



Female. — Proboscis long and slender, uniform, labellae conically tapered, with 

 fine outstanding setae ; vestiture black, with a blue reflection. Palpi small, one- 

 sixth as long as proboscis, clothed with black scales and rather long, fine setse. 

 Clypeus rounded triangular, dark brown, pruinose. Antennae moderate, the 

 joints subequal, rugose, coarsely pilose, black; tori subspherieal, with a cup- 

 shaped apical excavation, dark brown, slightly pruinose ; hairs of whorls sparse, 

 long, black. Byes black. Occiput broad, clothed with flat, appressed scales, 

 black with blue and green reflection ; a violaceous vertical patch, silvery white in 

 some lights, a silvery-white patch at the sides below. 



Prothoracic lobes large, well separated dorsally, brown, clothed with shining 

 submetallic violaceous and blue scales, a row of setae on anterior margin. Meso- 

 notum black, clothed with elliptical, flat scales, dull greenish and bronzy metallic 

 in color ; bristles at roots of wings short. Scutellum trilobate, similarly clothed 

 to mesonotum, each lobe with a tuft of brown bristles. Postnotum elliptical, 

 prominent, dark brown, a tuft of small setae posteriorly. Pleurae dark brown, 

 coxae luteous, clothed with elliptical silvery-white scales. 



Abdomen subcylindrical, tip blunt, with small terminal setae ; dorsal vestiture 



