Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 9. (Budapest 1911)
Brues, C. T.: New Diptera of the family Phoridae from Paraguay
442 CHARLES T. BRUES quite well-developed, but the other frontal bristles very short and weak. Ocelli close together, on a distinct tubercle. Antennae black, with velvety pubescence ; third joint circular in lateral view, but appearing compressed when seen from the front. Arista with the two basal joints very stout, bare; third joint strongly pubescent. Palpi black, with numerous short bristly hairs about their tips ; proboscis very short, castaneous. Mesonotum very shining and sparsely clothed with short hairs, with a large, very distinctly impressed, area before the scutellum ; scutellum with two delicate but distinct bristles. Sides of mesonotum lined with decumbent bristly hairs ; one pair of much reduced dorsocentral macrochaetae. Abdomen bare, subopaque, with the second segment slightly elongated. Legs slender, thinly hairy. Anterior coxae testaceous, their femora and tibiae brownish yellow and their tarsi fuscous; middle legs piceous, lighter on the femora : hind legs piceous. Halteres entirely black. Wings quite distinctly tinged with fuscous, venation blackish brown ; costal vein extending scarcely beyond the middle of the wing, very stout except at base; fringed witb short fine hairs; first vein ending twice as far from the humeral cross-vein as from the tip of the third, and opposite the furcation of the third ; second vein ending midway between the tips of the first and third. Fourth vein evenly but slightly curved, recurved at base and apex ; fifth vein distinctly sinuous, ending far from the fourth as in the European arcuata; sixth vein strongly sinuous; seventh very distinct, nearly straight. A second female differs by its paler legs and pleurae, and fuscous thoracic dorsum. Type from San Bernardino, Paraguay, 1908 ( F IEBRIG ), paratype from Paraguay ( F IEBRIG). The shining front with more distinct bristles and the black halteres are the most conspicuous characters distinguishing this species from the European G. arcuata MEIG.
