Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 5. (Budapest 1907)

Brues, C. T.: Some new exotic Phoridae

410 CHARLES T. BRUES Aphiochaeta cilipes n. sp. Female. Length -2'

75 mm. Brownish-}

rellow, head black and abdomen in part black ; legs yellowish testaceous, the hind femora and also the tibiae tipped w

Tith black. Wings pale yellowish. Front sligtlily but distinctly wider than high, brownish near the lower margin. Frontal chaetotaxy rather peculiar ; the ocellar row straight as usual, middle row very strongly bowed downward. Aside from these there are only four more reclinate bristles placed in a pair on each side near the lower angle, one above the other. The four proclinate bristles large and w

Tell-developed especially the upper pair which are widely separated and higher up than usual. Antennae small, oval, testaceous, the arista very weakly pubescent. Palpi large, strongly bristly. Proboscis very short, fleshy. Cheeks each with a pair of very stout downwardly directed bristles and a smaller series of four or five in front of these. Postocular cilia strong. Dorsum of thorax strongly arched with a single pair of dorsocentral bristles and only two marginal scutellar ones. Abdomen mostly black, irregularly marked w

Tith yellow. First to fourth segments each with a narrow yellow posterior border, the second yellow on the sides and the fourth on the middle. Second segment with a bunch of black bristles on each side. Legs long and very stout, the posterior femora much thickened, less than four times as long as broad and ciliated below on the apical half with a series of long curved black bristly hairs. Four posterior tibiae strongly setulose, the bristles of the middle pair twice as long as the width of the tibia and those of the hind pairs which are arranged in two series fully as long as the width of the tibia. Middle tibia with one very long spur and hind ones each with one long and three short ones. Wings long, the costal vein reaching distinctly beyond the middle, its cilia of moderate length. First vein attaining the costa one half the way from the humeral crossvein to the tip. Furcation of third vein forming an angle of about i'orty-five degrees, the cell thus formed of moderate size ; fourth vein curved at the base and straight at the apex ; fifth, sixth and seventh nearly straight, all of them strong. Halteres pale. One female from Sattelberg, Huon Gulf, New

r Guinea, May 1899 ( BIRO). This species is related to A. nigriceps LOEW of North America and A. melanocephala v. ROSER of Europe. From the first it is distinguishable by the strongly bristly tibiae the middle pair being distinctly setulose, by the shorter costal cilia, and the absence of a second pair of scutellar bristles. It differs from melanocephala which has also simi-