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its base very nearly level with the base of the second posterior 

 cell, its stem about half the length of the cell, stem of the 

 second posterior nearly as long as the cell ; posterior cross-vein 



Fig. 275. 

 Wing of Phoniomyia indica. 9 . Theobald. 



about the same size as the mid cross-vein and scarcely one and 

 a half times its own length distant from it. Hal teres rather 

 stout, stem pale, knob fuscous. 



Length. — 4 mm. 



Habitat. — Singapore (Biro, 1902). 



Observations. — Described from a perfect male. It most nearly 

 approaches P. longirostris, Theob., but can at once be told by the 

 shorter proboscis and unadorned legs. The male claspers very 

 small and pallid. 



Type in the National Museum of Hungary, Budapest. 



Phoniomyia magna. Theobald (1905). 



Ann. Mus. Nat. Hung. III., p. 117 (1905). 



Head black with black, violet, dull mauve and grey reflec- 

 tions ; palpi and proboscis deep brown ; clypeus brown. Thorax 

 deep blackish-brown with metallic brassy yellowish and violet 

 scales ; scutellum scales silvery ; prothoracic lobes mauve scaled. 

 Abdomen deep brown above, unhanded ; yellowish below with 

 grey scales. Legs deep brown, yellowish basally, unbanded. 

 Wing scales dense, brown. 



9 . Head black with flat scales showing black, violet, dull 

 mauve and grey reflections when held in different lights ; palpi 

 black scaled ; antennae deep brown, basal segment with grey 

 sheen above ; proboscis long, thin, acuminate, deep brown ; 

 clypeus with grey sheen. 



Thorax black with spindle-shaped brassy-yellowish scales, 

 some showing violet and mauve reflections ; scutellum with flat 

 silvery-white scales, the basal ones dusky in some lights ; pro- 

 thoracic lobes with mauve scales, dusky when viewed in some 

 lights ; pleurae deep brown with some white scales. 



