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Remarks. —It is a typical Wyeomyia and easily distinguished from 
W. Metallica by the dark almost black mesonotum the dark scaled protho- 
racic lobes the slightly clavate lateral wing scales and the different 
venation. 
Genus 2. —Phoniomyia. — Theobald. 
Head with large spatulate scales with ends more rounded than those 
in Wyeomyia. Male and female antennae pilose. Proboscis long and 
slender. Scutellum with rather small racquet-shaped scales. Mesonotum 
with spindle-shaped and spatulate scales. Wings with long fork cells in 
male and female and clavate lateral scales. Colours metallic. 
Remarks. —One species occurs in Malaya but is not very common. 
Phoniomyia Indica. — Theobald. 
Thorax blackish-brown covered with metallic fusiform and spatulate 
scales varying with the light from bronze-green to purple-bronze or peacock- 
blue. Proboscis as long as the abdomen. Prothoracic lobes with white 
scales above and purple-bronze below. W ings densely clad with dark 
brown clavate scales. Abdomen purple with silvery lateral spots. 
Female Head. —Entirely covered with spatulate scales dark purple in 
colour; these scales are smaller and their ends are rounder than the 
cephallic scales in W r yeomyia. On the vertex is a small triangular patch of 
silvery-white scales the apex of the triangle being posterior and thrust like 
a wedge into the purple scales; there are a few black upright forked 
scales behind on the nape. All the scales are metallic and their hue varies 
with the amount and direction of the light now seeming dark purple now 
bronze-green. Orbital and vertical bristles black. Basal joint of antenna 
black, without scales; remaining joints black, with white rings at the 
' insertion of the verticils; there are a few scales on the inner face of the 
second joint and numerous short hairs on all the joints ; verticillate hairs 
black. Clypeus black. Palpi not one-tenth the length of the proboscis 
clad with dark purple-brown scales. Proboscis long and slender, as long 
I as the abdomen (which in this mosquito is relatively very long) scaled with 
metallic-purple scales. 
Thorax. —Prothoracic lobes large but not so large as the lobes in the 
Wyeomyinae, entirely covered with rather large racquet-shaped scales 
1 which on the upper half are silvery-white on the lower dark metallic-purple. 
Mesonotum dark brown, almost black, entirely covered with spindle-shaped 
scales except over the wings and in front of the scutellum where the scales 
are large and spatulate. These scales are metallic, and bronze-green, 
{ peacock-blue and purple are the various colours shewn as the specimen is 
shifted from one position to another. Scutellum dark brown with rather 
small racquet-shaped dark brown scales; bristles dark brown probably 
four to the central lobe. Pleurae dark brown with a broad central vertical 
line of elliptical silvery scales. Wings brown with dark brown scales, 
median small and spatulate as many as three rows on the stems of fork cells 
and the fifth vein and the whole of the third ; lateral scales distinctly clavate 
present on the whole of second and third vein the branches of the fourth 
and upper branch of the fifth; all these scales shew purple tints. Fork 
cells of equal breadth, first longer than second, its base nearer wing base, 
