Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 3. (Budapest 1905)
Theobald, F. V.: A catalogue of the Culicidae in the Hungarian National Museum with description of new genera and species
CATALOGUE OF THE CULICIDAE IN THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM. i'l ; > Legs brown, unhanded ; 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; antennae 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 ; pleurae 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 coxae with some silvery scales ; femora brown, the fore and the mid with two round silvery spots (pale blue in some lights under 2 3 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. (LORIA, VII—'XI. 1893) and Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen ( BÍRÓ, 1901). Observations. Described from three £'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. 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 chaetae ; pleurae and a line on each side in front of the root of wings silvery. Abdomen deep violet with basal
