Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 5. (Budapest 1907)
Brues, C. T.: Some new exotic Phoridae
408 charles t. brues may readily be known however, by the much longer costal vein which reaches well beyond the middle of the wing, the black lialteres, pale antennae and palpi and more strongly regularly arcuate fourth wing vein. It shows considerable affinit}- with A. planifrons BRUES another species from New Guinea, but may be distinguished by the dark wings, median frontal groove and much longer first longitudinal vein in the wings. Aphiochaeta manca n. sp. (Plate Vitt fig. 5.) Male. Length 1 *25 mm. Slender, yellow, with pale testaceous legs, the hind femora strongly blackened at the tip. Abdomen with the third and fourth segments black. Knob of lialteres piceous. Front yellow, a very little higher than wide, with a distinct black ocellar tubercle and distinct median impressed frontal line. Four well-developed proclinate bristles, the anterior pair much the smaller; lower angles of front with two closely approximated reclinate bristles, following row nearly straight, ocellar row normal. Cheeks each with one stout downwardly directed macrochaeta. Palpi slender, moderately bristly. Antennae rounded, the arista short stout and strongly pubescent. Dorsum of thorax elongate, with a single pair of dorsocentral macrochaetae and only two scutellar bristles. Abdomen bare, with a few fine bristles along the sides ; none of the segments elongated. Legs long and slender ; the spur of the middle tibia three-fourths the length of the first joint of the tarsus. Hind femora moderately thickened, not ciliated ; hind tibiae setulose, the length of the bristles over one-half the thickness of the tibia ; one long and one short apical spur. Wings hyaline, with a distinct yellowish cast, the veins yellowish. Costal vein extending barely beyond the middle of the wing, its cilia very short and quite thickly placed ; third vein close to the costa, not furcate at the tip although there is a slight thickening or darkening in the wing at the point where the second vein usually extends. First vein meeting the costa at a point distinctly nearer to the humeral cross-vein than to the tip of the third. Fourth vein very slightly curved ; following nearly straight, the seventh distinct. Knob of halteres piceous, the base of the stalk yellowish. One male from Singapore, January 26, 1902 (B ÍRÓ). This is a most peculiar species which differs from all the other known species of Aphiochaeta by the absence of the second vein in the wings. The third vein is not furcate at the tip, or at least so indistinctly so that there is scarcely any thickening of the wing membrane at this point. On this account it might perhaps be referred to
