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

Brues, C. T.: Some new exotic Phoridae

V. ANNALES MU SEI NATIONALIS HUNGABICI. 1907. SOME NEW EXOTIC PHOKIDAE. B

Y CHARLES T. BRUES. (Plate VIII. i The following descriptions of new species of the Dipterous family Phoridae are based upon a veiy interesting though small collection recently accumulated by the Hungarian National Museum. Through the courtesy of Dr. K. K

ERTÉSZ in charge of the Diptera in that institution, they were sent to me for identification and description of the new species. The specimens were collected in several widely separated localities, some in South America, others in German East Africa, one in India, and the remainder in New Guinea and Australia. Without doubt the most interesting ones are the three wingless species belonging to the genera Pulicipltora, Wanclolleckia and Chonocephalus from East Africa. That such forms belonging to these apterous genera recognized from widely separated continents or from the far extremity of even the same continent should occur here indicates that a great "wealth of species of these remarkable creatures must still remain to be discovered, probably in all parts of the World. The types of the new species have been deposited in the Hungarian National Museum. SOUTH AMERICAN SPECIES. Phora paraguayana n. sp. (Plate VIII. fig. 9.) Female. Length 2'75

—3*5 mm. Testaceous, abdomen above black except most of the first segment and the base of the second. Antennae, front and proboscis more honey-yellow, tips of hind femora blackened and the legs apically blackened, darker from the black pubescence. Head of moderate size ; the front shining, with a few punctures along the sides ; a very little wider than long, without ocellar tubercle or frontal groove, but with the upper margin finely reflexed. Bristles strong; lower pair reclinate ; next row

r of four a little curved, its lateral