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3. Phoniomyia magna n. sp. 
Head black, with black, violet, dull mauve and grey reflections ; 
palpi and proboscis deep brown ; clypeus brown. Thorax deep blackish- 
brown with metallic brassy yellowish and violet scales ; scutellum silvery 
scaled ; prothoracic lobes mauve scaled. Abdomen deep brown above, 
unbanded ; yellowish below with grey scales. Leg deep brown, yellowish 
basally, unbanded. Wings scales dense, brown. 
J . Head black with flat scales showing black, violet, dull mauve 
and grey reflections when held in different lights ; palpi black scaled ; 
antennæ 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 ; prothoracic lobes with 
mauve scales, dusky when viewed in some lights ; pleuræ deep brown 
with some white scales. 
Abdomen testaceous covered with deep brown scales above ; yel¬ 
lowish below, with grey and almost white scales. 
Legs yellowish with deep brown scales, which are scanty basally 
and so appear yellowish ; ungues small, equal and simple. 
Wings with the second posterior cell considerably longer and but 
slightly narrower than the second posterior cell, its stem a little more 
than one-fourth the length of the cell ; stem of the second posterior 
more than one-half the length of the cell ; base of the first submarginal 
considerably nearer the base of the wing ; the posterior cross-vein shor¬ 
ter than the mid, about its own length distant from it. The bases of the 
wings are pale testaceous. Halteres testaceous, with stem and knob 
with blackish scales. 
Length : 5 mm. 
Habitat: S. Antonio, Bolivia. 
Observations: Described from a single female. It is one of the 
largest of the genus and should at once be told by its silvery grey scutel¬ 
lum, its densely scaled thorax and its mauve prothoracic lobes. 
