Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 5. (Budapest 1907)
Brues, C. T.: Some new exotic Phoridae
SOME NEW EXOTIC PHORIDiE. 407 larly bristly tibiae by the very short costal cilia which are very long in the European form, and by the longer costal vein which extends distinctly beyond the middle of the wing. Aphiochaeta fumipennis n. sp. (Plate VIII, fig. 8.) Female. Length 2-—2*5 mm. Black, antenna? and palpi brownishyellow ; four anterior trochanters and tibiae, and all tarsi brown. Wings strongly infuscated, dark brown. Front very shining, with a very few tine scattered hairs, distinctly higher than wide. Ocellar tubercle and median frontal groove present, well-defined. Four proclinate bristles, the lover ones much weaker than the upper pair, a pair of reclinate ones at each corner; middle row curving strongly downward medially; ocellar row straight. Antennae small, oval, with a strongly pubescent arista. Palpi small, their bristles stout only at the tips. Postocular cilia stout, cheeks each with three downwardly curving macrochaetae. Thorax longer than usual, the mesonotum sub-shining and strongly hairy, with only one pair of dorsocentral macrochaetae. Scutellum twice as wide as long, with two marginal bristles. Abdomen slender, the second segment elongated,* nearly as long as the third and fourth together. Genitalia pale. Legs stout, hut not especially thickened, the posterior femora less than one-fourth as broad as long. Middle tibiae microscopically setulose, hind ones more strongly so, the bristles about one-half as long as the width of the tibia. Middle tibiae with a single long slender spur, hind ones with one long and one much shorter one. Wings very long and narrow, strongly infuscated, more especially so along the veins. Costal vein reaching distinctly beyond the middle of the wing; third vein near to the costa for its entire length. First vein meeting the costa closer to the humeral cross-vein than to the tip of the third. Cell formed by the furcation of the third vein, very small and short. Costal cilia very short and thickly placed ; fourth vein slightly but evenly arcuate, faintly recurved at the tip. Fifth broadly bent at its middle; sixth sligthly sinuate; seventh distinct and nearly straight. Halteres wholly black, except the basal articulation of the pedicel which is pale. Two female specimens from Sattelberg, Huon Gulf, New Guinea, May 1899 (B ÍRÓ). , At first glance this species might very readily be confounded with the European Aphiochaeta minor Z EIT , on account of its polished front, infuscated wings, short costal cilia and setulose hind tibiae. It
