Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 9. (Budapest 1911)
Brues, C. T.: New Diptera of the family Phoridae from Paraguay
438 CHARLES T. BRUES Pleurae with a series of several bristles above the fore coxa, a macrochaeta above the spiracle and several along the edge of the mesonotum. Scutellum evenly arcuate behind, three times as wide as long; with two marginal bristles and a fine bristly hair to the side of each bristle. Abdomen opaque, bare ; second segment elongated, without any bristles laterally. Ovipositor pale yellow, clothed with long bristly hairs. Legs long, the posterior femora only slightly broadened. Anterior tibiae with a series of four equidistant bristles, each as long as the thickness of the tibia, along its outer side ; middle tibiae each with a pair of macrochaetae at the base ; hind tibiae bare except that the pubescence is a little more bristly along the outer edge at the base. Wings hyaline, faintly yellowish ; distinctly infuscated at their tips ; veins brown, costal vein slightly extending beyond the middle of the wing, its bristles, very fine, short and closely placed ; first vein ending at four-fifths the distance from the humeral cross-vein to the tip of the third vein ; third vein lying very close to the first to near its furcation which is opposite the tip of the first vein ; fourth vein evenly curved, almost straight, ending as close to the wing tip as the fifth which is nearly straight ; 6* 1 1 vein straight ; seventh obsolete. Halteres pale yellow\ One female from San Bernardino, Paraguay, February or March, 1906 (BABARCZY). This species approaches the West Indian Ph. divaricata ALDRICH, but seems to be quite distinct. As previously noted it is related to Ph. paraguayana, but lacks the bristles upon the hind tibiae and the wings have a much shorter costal vein and less strongly curved fourth vein. Hypocera LIOY. There is one undescribed species from San Bernardino which falls in the group hitherto known from only Europe and Nort America, in which the vertex is semicircularly elevated with a sharp rim above. I had thought at first that there were two species, so greatly do the sexes differ in the color and form of the antennae, but as I can discover no characters aside from such as are probably only sexual differences, believe that the specimens before me represent but a single species. The following are the differences : Male. Antennae black; third joint much elongated, sharply pointed and thickly clothed with piceous pubescence ; palpi black. Female. Antennae oiange-yellow ; third joint short-ovate, nearly bare ; palpi orange-yellow.
