600 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Phoniomyia bimaculipes. Theobald (1905). 



Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. III., p. 114 (1905). 



Head bright blue in front, black behind. Thorax shiny 

 brown, bright testaceous in front with scanty small brown 

 scales ; pleurae deep brown ; base of wings pale testaceous. 

 Abdomen black with apical silvery white spots and silvery areas 

 ventrally. Legs brown, unbanded ; the femora of all the legs 

 with two silvery spots on one side. 



9 . Head clothed with small flat bright blue scales in front, 

 black ones behind, the two colours forming a distinct contrasted 

 line ; palpi brown, small ; proboscis brown, thin, long, as long 

 as the whole body ; antennae brown, basal segment bright 

 testaceous ; verticillate hairs brown. 



Thorax deep brown, shiny, but bright testaceous in front, 

 with narrow-curved black scattered scales; prothoracic lobes 

 bright testaceous with small black spatulate flat scales ; scutellum 

 testaceous with flat black scales and four median lobe border- 

 bristles ; metanotum deep brown, testaceous in the middle ; 

 pleurae deep brown in the middle, testaceous above and under 

 the wings. 



Abdomen deep brown, with silvery blue apical lateral lines 

 and numerous golden bristles on the apex, 



Legs with pale yellowish coxae with some silvery scales ; 

 femora brown, the fore and the mid with two round silvery 

 spots (pale blue in some lights under two-third power) ; in the 

 hind legs the median spot is drawn out into a long silvery streak 

 and the second silvery spot is large and near the apex ; ungues 

 small equal and simple. (In some light the legs have a bronzy 

 ochreous hue). 



Wings with typical scales ; the first fork-cell a little longer 

 and much narrower than the second, its base nearer the apex 

 of the wing, its stem about two-thirds the length of the cell, 

 stem of the second posterior cell also nearly two-thirds the length 

 of the cell ; posterior cross-vein about its own length distant 

 from the mid cross- vein ; scales on the upper costal border very 

 long, dark and spiny. Hal teres pale at the base, half the stem 

 and the knob dark brown. 

 Length. — 3*5 mm. 



Habitat. — New Guinea at Moroka 1300 m. (Loria, vii.-xi. 

 1893) and Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen (Biro, 1901). 



Observations. — Described from three $ 's. It is a very 



