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FRED. V. THEOBALD 
Habitat : Singapore (Biró, 1902). 
Observations. Described from two perfect ç ’s. They can at once be 
distinguished by the cephalic ornamentation, absence of thoracic orna¬ 
mentation except the blue prothoracic lobes. The mid and hind legs have 
the last two or three tarsi apparently pale, but in some lights the legs 
are unicolorous. 
2. Uranotænia atra n. sp. 
Head black with dull brownish violet scales. Thorax black with 
brown scales and a grey scaled line over the roots of the wings. Abdomen 
black. Legs uniformly dark brown. 
5 . Head black with flat dusky scales, the lateral areas showing dull 
brownish violet, scattered over the whole surface are a few large deep 
brown upright forked scales. Palpi, antennæ and proboscis deep brown. 
Thorax black with bronzy narrow-curved scales, except for a line 
of grey ones over the roots of the wings and black bristles over the roots 
of the wings ; scutellum black with flat black scales ; metanotum nude, 
black, pleuræ black (denuded). Abdomen black, unbanded; venter black. 
Legs brown, the swollen mid femora testaceous below, the others 
at the base ; ungues small equal and simple. 
Wings with the first submarginal cell half the size of the second, 
its stem three times as long as the cell. 
Stem of the second posterior one and a half times as long as the 
cell ; posterior cross-vein considerably longer than the mid, not its own 
length distant from it. Halteres with stem yellowish at the base, black 
above and also on the knob. 
Length : 2 mm. 
Habitat : Muina, New Guinea (Biró, 1900). 
Observations. Described from a single $ . It differs from all known 
Uranotaenia in the general blackish-brown hue and absence of adornment, 
except the grey line of scales on each side over the roots of the wings. 
Genus PHONIOMYIA Theob. 
Monogr. Culicid. III. p. 311 (1903). 
1. Phoniomyia bimaculipes n. sp. 
Head bright blue in front, black behind. Thorax shiny brown, bright 
testaceous in front with scanty small brown scales ; pleuræ deep brown, 
base of wings pale testaceous. Abdomen black with apical silvery white 
spots and silvery areas ventrally. 
