Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 5. (Budapest 1907)
Brues, C. T.: Some new exotic Phoridae
404 charles t. brues INDO-AUSTRALIAN SPECIES. Phora nudicosta n. sp. (Plate VIII. fig. 6.) Male. Length 1"3 mm. Thorax yellowish brown, head fuscous, pleura and legs pale testaceous, abdomen black with a testaceous band at the base which includes the entire first segment. A slender species with nonthickened legs and the habitus of Aphiochseta. Front one-half wider than high, lower row of frontal bristles consisting of four strong equidistant bristles, of which the lateral ones are close to the eyemargin. In front of these is an approximated much smaller pair of median reclinate bristles. Middle row placed rather high up ; ocellar row as usual. Ocelli not placed on a tubercle ; no trace of median frontal groove. Antennae small, oval, yellowish fuscous, with an almost bare arista. Palpi yellow, slender, with stout bristles below, proboscis short and fleshey. Cheeks without any stout macrocliBetse. Thoracic dorsum sub-shining, its hairy vestiture stronger than usual ; one pair of dorsocentral macrochaetae and only two marginal scutellar bristles. Scutellum about two times as wide as long. Abdomen black, except, the first segment which is testaceous ; second and sixth segments elongate. Hypopygium with the large ventral lobe black and all the appendages testaceous. Front tibia? with an external bristle at the basal third : middle ones with a pair near the base and hind ones with a single bristle at the basal third. The four posterior tibiae have each but a single spur. Wings hyaline, the veins fuscous. Costal vein extending only about two-fifths the length of the wing; entirely bare, without even any fine hairs and considerably thicker toward the tip. Third vein almost as thick as the costa, suddenly curved forward at the tip, furcate at a sharp angle very near the tip. First vein meeting the costa very obliquely just before the tip of the second. Fourth vein nearly straight basally, but broadly recurved at its apical fourth. Fifth and sixth nearly straight, seventh obsolete. Halteres pale, with a fuscous capitulum. One male. India: Matheran; 800 metres, July 8, 1902 (B ÍRÓ). The present species could not be confused with any other. The peculiar configuration of the thick veins, bare costa, recurved fourth vein and slender legs with only single spurs on the four posterior tibiae will serve to make it readily recognizable.
