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Genus Wyeomyia . 
line of silvery white scales running from the prothoracic lobes to 
near the base of the wing. 
Length. —4 mm. 
Habitat. —Hakgala, Ceylon (E. Green). 
Time of capture. —iii. 07. 
Observations .—Described from a perfect f and 9 • 
Type in the British Museum. 
Phoniomyia chrysomds. Dyar and Knab (1907). 
Journ. New York Ent. Soc. XV., 208 (1907). 
“ S . Proboscis long and slender, black; occiput dark scaled, a 
small silvery spot on the vertex; prothoracic lobes prominent, clothed 
with shining coppery scales; mesonotum and scutellum clothed with 
dark scales with faint greenish and bronzy lustre, setae of scutellum 
dark; metanotum deep brown with a group of setae; abdomen black 
above with faint bluish sheen, beneath silvery-white, the colours 
separated in a straight line; legs dark with a brassy reflection beneath, 
the mid legs with the third and fourth tarsal joints and the apex of 
the second silvery-white at the side. 
Length. —2’5 mm. 
One specimen, Tabernilla, Canal Zone, Panama (August Busck, 
Collector), bred from larvae in water in leaves of bromelias.” 
Two other species have been described by Messrs. Dyar and 
Knab. 
Phoniomyia philophone. Dyar and Knab (1907) 
Joiirn. New York Ent. Soc. XV., 209 (1907). 
Phoniomyia scotinomus. Dyar and Knab (1907). 
Journ. New York Ent. Soc. XV., 209 (1907). 
Genus WYEOMYIA. Theobald (1901). 
Mono. Culicid. II., 267 (1901); III., 310 (1903); IV., 596 (1907). 
Under this genus Dyar and Knab have placed Lirnatus, 
Theobald, a perfectly distinct insect having no relation to 
Wyeomyia , and also Phoniomyia and Dendromyia which are also 
well defined genera easily identified by anyone making a careful 
and competent examination. 
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