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protuberance short, stout, and of a clear yellow color. Otherwise 

 as the female. 



Type.— C&t. No. 14906, U.S.N.M. 



APmOCHiETA TASMANIENSIS, new species. 



Male and female. — Black-brown, shining; frons black, nearly as 

 long as broad, with numerous short hairs besides the usual bristles, 

 lower post-antennal bristles nearly as large as upper pair, and a little 

 closer placed, the upper pair occupying one-fifth of the width of 

 frons, center pair in first row nearer center of frons than outer pair 

 but hardly lower, the upper pair in transverse line with upper post- 

 antennals; thorax with the usual short dorsal hairs, scutellum with 

 two strong marginal bristles and four hairs on the posterior margin 

 between them, mesopleurse bare; abdomen dull black-brown, second 

 segment elongated in both sexes, sixth in male slightly elongated and 

 with a conspicuous pale posterior margin, sixth in female much elon- 

 gated, male hypopygium and anal protuberance inconspicuous; legs 

 yellow, posterior femora darkened at apex, mid tibiae with two rows 

 of setulse, those on antero-dorsal surface minute, hind tibise with a 

 single strong row; wings clear or yellowish, costa short of middle, 

 first division two and one-half times as long as second, third rather 

 more than half as long as second, fringe long, but delicate and rather 

 widely placed, fourth vein curved at base and running straight to 

 near wing tip ; halteres yellow. 



Length, 1^-2 mm. 



A large number of specimens of both sexes from Tasmania (Arthur 

 M. Lea). 



Was standing with label PJiora omnivora Hudson ?. I am not sur- 

 prised at the ? being on the label, as it is absolutely impossible for any 

 one to tell just exactly what sort of Phorid Hudson had before him when 

 he wrote his book.^ Kertesz includes Hudson's species in Phora, but I 

 infer from the caricature given by Hudson that it is an Ajphiochseta. 

 However, it is quite unrecognizable. It is obvious from Hudson's 

 remarks that he had more than one species before him, and there is 

 no reason to suppose, considering the remoteness of Tasmania from 

 New Zealand, that this was one of them. 



Type.—Csit. No. 14907, U.S.N.M. 



APHIOCH^TA SETARIA, new species. 



Female. — Yellow, subshining; frons dull yellow, darker toward 

 vertex, covered with very short black hairs, and with the usual 

 bristles, both pairs of post-antennal bristles present, the lower pair 

 three-fourths as large as upper pair, and not much closer placed, the 

 upper pair separated by one-fourth the breadth of frons, center pair 

 of bristles in first row distinctly lower than outer pair, in transverse 



1 Man. N»w Zealand Ent., 1892, p. 62. 



