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bus validis, cum costali circa medium costa desinentihus ; posteriorihus 

 subiilissitnis, sijnpUcibus, disjunctis. Coxa et femora crassa, comfressa. 

 Mandibles and viaxillce obsolete. Palpi porrect, not jointed. Antennce 

 seated near the epistoma, with the third joint conspicuous, and with an 

 arista. Wings with the fore veins stout, ceasing tcith the costal vein 

 about the middle of the costa ; hind veins very slender, simple, disjoined. 

 Coxes and femora thick, compressed. 



Family XXIX. PHOEID^E. 



Phorid^, Hal. D. B. I. 9 (1851). 



This family has been divided into the four following genera : — 

 Tliora, Conicera, Metopina, and Gymnopliora ; the three latter are 

 here reunited to FJiora. Conicera is distinguished by the arista 

 of the male, which is vertical and thick towards the base, Meto- 

 pina by its much compressed thorax, and Gymnophora by the bare 

 costal vein. 



Genus I. FHORA. 



Phora, Latr. H. N. I. (1796) ; Stepb.; Curt.; Westw. ; Zett. Tri- 

 neura et Conicera, Meig. Phora, Gymnophora et Metopina, Mcq. 

 Phora, Gymnophora et Conicera, Blanch. 



Corpus subcompressura, parvum aut minimum. Caput et thorax con- 

 vexa, subsetosa, Frons sat lata. Facias subconcava. Oculi lue- 

 diocres, oblongi, nudi. Ocelli tres. Proboscis brevis. Palpi longi, 

 validi, setosi. Antennae brevissimte ; articulus tertius rotundus ; 

 arista longa, nuda, setiformis. Thorax brevi-ellipticus. Alae corpore 

 Scepissime pauUo longiores ; vena costalis plerumque ciliata. Abdo- 

 men thorace longius, apicem versus in fcemina prajsertim atteiiuatum ; 

 segmenta longitudine subccqualia. Pedes postici longi ; femora com- 

 pvessa ; ungues et onychia minuta. 



Body compressed, small or very minute, slightly shining or dull, with 

 a few bristles. Head and thorax convex. Head vertical. Front rather 

 broad. Face slightly concave. Eyes bare, oblong, of moderate size, 

 convex, not prominent. Ocelli three, on the vertex. Proboscis short. 

 Palpi long, stout, bristly. Antenna very short ; first and second joints 

 extremely small ; third round ; fourth and fifth obsolete ; sixth long, 

 bare, setilbrm. Thorax short-elliptical ; disc bare. Wings generally a 

 little longer than the body, moderately broad, concave on the hind 

 border at the base ; costal vein ending before or a little beyond half 

 the length of the wing, generally ciliated ; subcostal vein rudimentary ; 

 mediastinal veiti distinct ; radial vein more or less united with the cu- 

 bital ; cubital vein ending at the tip of the costal ; praebrachial, pobra- • 



