O. Merkl szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 66. (Budapest, 2005)

cies collected only on a single occasion is relatively high. This also suggests that the distribution of a number of species is still poorly known. While identifying Old World Emesinae from the material deposited in the Hemiptera Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, and The Natural History Museum, London, I found specimens from India and Pakistan belonging to the genus Myiophanes REUTER, 1881, which do not agree with any known species. In this paper, two species are described as new. Furthermore, new morphological data and new records of the little-known species Ploiaria turkestanica P. V. PUTSHKOV, 1984 are presented. MATERIALS AND METHODS External structures were examined under a stereoscopic microscope. Drawings were made by using a camera lucida. Male genitalia were dissected after a short boiling in 10% KOH solution. Measurements were taken using a micrometer eyepiece. Abbreviations for depositories - BMNH = The Natural History Museum, London. Great Britain; HNHM = Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary; NHMW = Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria; ZMAS = Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia; ZMYA = Zoological Museum, Yerevan, Armenia. TAXONOMIC PART Description of new species of Myiophanes Myiophanes REUTER, 1881 is a moderately species-rich genus widely distributed in the Oriental and Afrotropical Regions; a few species are also present in New Guinea, Australia and even in the Palaearctic. Seven species belonging to the subgenus Myiophanes s. str. are known, each distributed in the Oriental Region except M. tipulina REUTER, 1881, which is known to occur in China, Japan and Australia. From the continental part of South Asia, only M. kempi CHINA, 1924 and M. karenia DISTANT, 1903 have hitherto been described, both known only by the type material. Two further species from the area are described below. The holotypes of the new species were compared to the types of each known species of the subgenus (M. annulifera MCATEE et MALLOCH, 1926; M.fluitaria McATEE et MALLOCH, 1926; M. greeni DISTANT, 1903; M. karenia DISTANT, 1903; M. kempi CHINA, 1924; M. tipulina REUTER, 1881) except M. blotei WYGODZINSKY, 1966.