Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 5. (Budapest 1907)
Brues, C. T.: Some new exotic Phoridae
SOME NEW EXOTIC PHORID.E. 409 Pulicifora , but tbe habitus, spinose tibiae with wel developed spurs, as well as the form and cliaetotaxy of the front are exactly as in certain typical species of Ajjhiochaeta. In color and all characters exclusive the furcation of the third vein, it approaches the European A. /lava F ALLÉN. Puliciphora matheranensis n. sp. (Plate Yin. fig. 3.) Male. Length nearly 1 mm. Piceous black, the legs, antennae, and palpi brownish-yellow. Front about twice as wide as high, with an ocellar row of four bristles, a row of four along the anterior margin, which are porrect or slightly reclinate, and also a single one on each side about the middle near the eye-margin. Antennae small, brown ; the arista slightly pubescent. Palpi strongly clavate, bristly. Dorsum of thorax subopaque with one pair of dorsocentral macrocliaetae and two scutellar bristles. Abdomen small, dull black, the genitalia but shlightly projecting; second segment slightly elongated, nearly twice as long as the third which is much longer than the fourth. Legs short and rather stout, but the tibiae are not at all setulose. Spur of middle tibiae minute, that of the hind tibiae short, but quite distinct. Wings hyaline, with a very weak brownish tinge. Costal vein just attaining the middle .of the wing, its cilia closely placed, microscopically fine and short. First vein meeting the costa at a point equidistant from the humeral cross-vein and the tip of the costa. Light veins closely connected with the third vein. Fourth vein straight except at the base ; fifth bent near the base, then parallel with the fourth to the tip ; sixth curved back toward the tip ; seventh distinct, nearly straight and close to the anal angle. Knob of halteres black, the stalk pale basally. One male from Matheran, India, 800 metres (BIRO, 1902). The Indian species differs from DAHL'S P. lucifera and P. pule.f by the apparently shorter costal vein. Unfortunately the latter two latter species have never been carefully described and I have never seen them. Chonocephalus dorsalis WANDOLLECK. There is one female of this species from New Guinea. FriedricliWilhelmshafen, June 1901, and another from the same place dated July 1901.
