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

Brues, C. T.: Some new exotic Phoridae

406 charles t. brues Aphiochaeta meridionalis n. sp. (Plate VIII. fig. lü.) Female. Length m. Luteous yellow, the legs very pale ; abdomen honey-yellow, with a narrow black band at the apex of each segment, that on the second segment broadest and widened a little on the sides. Front as high as broad, distinctly narrower below than above, yellow, the ocellar tubercle black, median frontal groove very distinct ; frontal bristles stout, four proclinate bristles, the median pair very small and close together, the larger pair equidistant from one another and the lower reclinate bristle on each side ; the upper reclinate bristle of this lower row nearly above the lower one ; next row of bristles slightly curved, its members equidistant ; ocellar row straight. Antennae small, oval, luteous ; arista finely pubescent. Palpi luteous, -with strong bristles below. Proboscis fleshy and very short. Cheeks each with a closely placed row of about ten slender macrochaetae directed downwards, the posterior two longer than the others. Postocular cilia not enlarged below. Thoracic dorsum yellow, rather shining, with one pair of dorsocentral macrochaetae. Scutellum with only two bristles, abdomen yellow, the first six segments with black posterior margins, the bands of the second and third segments widened on the sides. Seventh segment black. The sides of the second segment with a bunch of black hairs. Legs long and slender, all the coxae with a few black bristles below. Hind femora scarcely thickened, their tibiae with a black line above and a series of rather long but very ^veak setulae. Wings hyaline, tinged with yellow, especially in front; costal vein reaching well beyond the middle of the wing, its bristles short, delicate and thickly placed. First vein ending at three-fifths of the distance from the humeral cross-vein to the tip of the costa. Furcation of the third vein rather sharp, the cell thus formed small, the last section of the costa as long as the second vein. Fourth vein evenly curved and recurved at the extreme tip. Fifth vein rather sharply bent at the middle. Sixth bent back beyond the middle, so that the two converge and then rapidly diverge apically. Seventh vein nearly straight and not conforming with the anal edge of the wing. Halteres pale yellow. One specimen. Paraguay : Asuncion. (V

EZÉNYI 19U5). This form is related to the West Indian Aplnochaeta obscura BRUES, which it resembles in general facies. It is quite different however, and may be distinguished by the longer costal vein that reaches considerably boyond the middle of the wing, the almost hyaline wings, pale banded abdomen, and closely placed costal bristles. The anal vein /