Genus Phoniomyia. 601 



distinct and beautiful species and can at once be told by the 

 two silvery spots on the femora and the beautifully ornamented 

 head. 



Type in the National Museum of Hungary, Budapest. 



Phoniomyia indica. Theobald (1905). 

 Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. III., p. 115 (1905). 



Head black, with deep violet to black scales ; palpi and 

 proboscis violet black. Thorax black with bronze and metallic 

 green scales, a pale apple green and azure blue area behind 

 roots of wings ; metanotum chestnut-brown with black chaetae ; 

 pleurae and a line on each side in front of the root of wings 

 silvery. Abdomen deep violet with basal lateral triangular 

 silvery spots. Proboscis of $ nearly as long as the whole 

 body. 



$ . Head black, completely clothed with flat scales showing 

 violet or black in colour according to the light, and in certain 

 lights a dull silvery patch between the eyes ; antennae, palpi, 

 clypeus and proboscis black, the palpi very short, the clypeus 

 showing a dull grey sheen. 



Thorax shiny black, clothed with irregularly arranged small 

 bronzy spindle-shaped scales and large flat violet, blue and green 

 scales, a line of dull silvery scales in front of the root of each 

 wing at the side, and in some lights there appears an apple-green 

 line behind ; the large flat scales are most dense just behind the 

 root of the wings where they are very large and project outwards 

 and also just before the scutellum ; prothoracic lobes with flat 

 various shaded scales, and there are numerous short stout bristles 

 projecting forward from the mesonotum over the head ; scutellum 

 testaceous with flat black scales ; border-bristles black, four large 

 and some small ones on the mid lobe ; metanotum brown with 

 a dense patch of short black bristles, radiating outwards; pleurae 

 reddish-brown with patches of silvery white scales. 



Abdomen deep violet, almost black in some lights, with 

 silvery white triangular basal lateral spots, apex swollen and 

 very bristly ; claspers very small and delicate, pale grey. 



Legs bronzy brown, deep ochreous at their base, the coxae 

 having a patch of silvery scales ; femora paler beneath than 

 remainder of the legs. 



Wings with dense brown scales, the first sub-marginal cell 

 longer but very slightly narrower than the second posterior cell, 



