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9-2 FRED. V. THEOBALD Habitat: Singapore ( BÍRÓ , 1902). Observations. Described from two perfect $'s. They can at once be distinguished by the cephalic ornamentation, absence of thoracic ornamentation 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. Uranotaenia 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. J . Head black with fiat dusky scales, the lateral areas showing dull brownish violet, scattered over the whole surface are a few large deep brown upright forked scales. Palpi, antennae 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, pleurae 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. Ifabitat: Muina, New Guinea ( BÍRÓ, 1900). Observations. Described from a single 5 . 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 ; pleurae deep brown, base of wings pale testaceous. Abdomen black with apical silvery white spots and silvery areas ventrally.
