CATALOGUE OF THE CULICIDAE IN THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM. H5 
Legs brown, unbanded; the femora of all the legs with two silvery 
spots on one side. 
<j> . Head clothed with small flat bright blue scales in front, black 
ones behind, the two colors forming a distinct contrasted line ; palpi 
brown, small; proboscis brown, thin, long, as long as the whole body; 
antennæ brown, basal joint 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 black 
flat scales and four median-lobe border-bristles ; metanotum deep brown, 
testaceous in the middle ; pleuræ 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 coxæ 
with some silvery scales ; femora brown, the fore and the mid with two 
round silvery spots (pale blue in some lights under Vs 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 lights 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. Halteres pale at 
the base, half the stem and the knob dark brown. 
Length : 3*5 mm. 
Habitat: New Guinea at Moroka 1300 m. (Lobia, VII —XI. 1893) 
and Friedrich- Wilhelmshafen (Bibo, 1901). 
Observations. Described from three j ’s. It is a very distinct and 
beautiful species and can at once be told by the two silvery spots on the 
femora and the beautifully ornamented head. 
2. Phoniomyia indica n. sp. 
(Plates II and III.) 
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 chaetæ ; pleuræ and a line on each side in 
front of the root of wings silvery. Abdomen deep violet with basal 
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