Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 9. (Budapest 1911)
Brues, C. T.: New Diptera of the family Phoridae from Paraguay
440 CHARLES T. BRUES to a long apical spur. Hind tibia with two macrochaetas, one externally at basal third and a second externally just before tip, in addition to four apical spurs ; internally at apex with several comb-like rows of appressed flattened bristles. Wings hyaline, narrow ; costal vein with moderately fine, closely placed cilia, ending barely beyond the middle of the wing, first vein ending one-third nearer the tip of the third than the basal cross-vein ; third vein bare, not forked nor swollen at its tip ; fourth vein straight except for a moderate curve near base, ending much nearer the wing tip than does the nearly straight fifth ; sixth distinct, but the seventh almost obsolete. Halteres entirely black. Female. Length 2*8—3'2 mm. The palpi and antennae are orange yellow ; the third joint of the latter dusted with very short yellowish pubescence, scarcely one-third longer than thick and bearing an arista about five times its own length. Abdomen without the fluting of the margins to the segments seen in the male and also scarcely hairy along the sides. Wings with the third vein faintly beset with microscopic bristles, more distinctly so than in the male where they are practically absent. Otherwise similar to the male. Habitat : Paraguay. San Bernardino ( F IEBRIG . 1908). One male and three females. This is a very robust species, resembling the North American H. Joltnsoni BRUES, but distinguished by its blackish antennae and palpi in the male, the presence of only two scutellar birstles, and the equidistant bristles of the lower frontal row. It resembles still more closel}' the European //. coronata BECKER, in cliaetotaxy and habitus, but the position of the lateral ocelli and the frontal bristles is very different. One of the females before me is much more pale in color, with the scutellum and middle legs honey yellow and the abdominal segments banded indistinctly w 7ith pale at apex. I believe it only a freshly emerged specimen however, and not a true color variety. Melaloncha pulchella BRUES. Trans. American Entom. Soc., Vol. 29, p. 375 (1903). There is in the present collection, a single male bearing the label «Paraguay, Fiebrig» which probably belongs to this species, originally described from Songo, Bolivia. It differs somewhat in color, the thorax is yellowish anteriorly, except for a complete dark median stripe and the pleurae are orangecolored on their upper half, while the second to sixth abdominal seg-
