Genus Phoniomyia. 311 
Wreomyia Grayit. Theobald. 
(Mono. Culicid. II., p. 269, 1901.) 
Dr. Low obtained several in the forests of St. Lucia, once on 
the top of a mountain over 1,000 feet high, clad with vegetation. 
They bite with great readiness and pertinacity. Dr. St. George 
Gray has also taken this species at Tabor, eight miles from 
Castries, 400 feet above sea-level, in February ; Barbados, on the 
Crown lands, in March (Dr. Low). 

Genus 41. PHONIOMYIA. nov. gen. 
(Plates XIV. and XV.) 
Head scales flat; thoracic scales flat and spindle-shaped, 
irregularly disposed ; scutellum with flat scales ; metanotum with 
chaetae. Palpi very short in both sexes. Wing scales broad, 
the lateral ones Taeniorhynchus-like ; the second long vein not 
carried past the marginal transverse. Proboscis very long, longer 
than the whole body. 
Clearly distinct from Wyeomyia, on account of the broader 
wing scales and the greatly elongated proboscis. 
This genus includes P. longirostris, and P. aranoides, Theobald. 
PHONIOMYIA LONGIROSTRIS. Theobald. 
Wyeomyia longirostris. ‘Theobald. 
Wyeomyia Trinidadensis. Theobald. 
(Mono. Culicid. IL., 1901, p. 275 (Jongirostris), and p. 277 (Trinidadensis).) 
Male specimens have now been sent by Dr. Lutz, from which 
the following description is drawn. 
6. Head with flat metallic brown scales, silvery white at 
the sides; antennae deep brown ; basal joint large, deep brown, 
with long verticillate hairs ; palpi very minute, black scaled ; 
proboscis very long, longer than the whole body. 
Thorax deep brown, densely coated with closely applied bronzy- 
brown scales, with metallic lustre, the edges of the mesonotum 
with paler scales; prothoracic lobes with metallic violet flat 
scales; scutellum with flat metallic bronzy scales; metanotum 
brownish black, with brown chaetae; pleurae brown, densely 
clothed with flat silvery-white and creamy scales, 
