Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 5. (Budapest 1907)
Brues, C. T.: Some new exotic Phoridae
412 charles t. brues Wandolleckia indomita n. sp. Female. Length 06 mm. Uniformly pale testaceous, only the eyes, sparse bristles and macrocliaetae black. Viewed from the side the front slopes rather evenly to the vertex which is sharply rounded. Near the anterior margin are four porrect macrocliaetae in two pans, one over the other. Eyes elongate oval, their longer diameter greater than that of the antennae. Cheeks without bristles. Palpi slender, with a few short bristles toward the tips. Proboscis swollen, fleshy. Antenme spherical, the arista reaching to the tip of the thorax and distinctly pubescent. Thorax short, about as long as the thickness of the head, destitute of macrocliaetae except for two small ones at the hind angles, one at the middle of the lateral margin and one between these. On the hind margin there is a series of four or six finer bristly hairs. Abdomen oval, distinctly depressed, nearly two times as long as the head and thorax together. Second segment long; third and fourth shorter, subequal, together but little longer than the second. Fifth shorter. Sixth longer and rounded behind. The abdomen is soft and membranous, without dorsal plates of sclerites and is covered with short, sparse, fine and bristly hairs. Legs short and moderately stout, closely and finely hairy, the hind tibiae with a distinct apical spur. Wings and halteres entirely absent. One female from Kiboslio, German East Africa, March 1903 (K ATONA). Only one other species of Wandolleckia has been described. W. Cooki BRUES from West Africa, collected in Liberia by Dr. 0. F. COOK on large land snails of the genus Achatina, and known onl}" in the female sex. There is in the same vial with the the present female, together with other wingless forms a very small winged male which I strongly suspect belongs with the female described here. It is about the same size and color as the female and resembles exactly males of Aphiochaeta. The front lias proclinate bristles on the anterior edge and two rows of reclinate bristles, and there is a median impressed line and an ocellar tubercle. The wings have a bristly costa with well developed first and furcate third veins. The legs have distinct spurs on the four posterior tibiae and the hind pair is strongly setulose. If this surmised association be correct, the validity of the genus Wandolleckia becomes extremely doubtful. Public Museum, Milwaukee, U. S. A. March 31, 1907.
