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117. Pseudomphrale longirostris (Becker) 



Omphrale longirostris Becker, 1913, p. 549. 



The type of this species could not be found. 



Length: Female body 3.5 mm. 



Type-locality : vicinity of Tschachbar, Alakran Coast of the Indian 

 Ocean, Baluchistan; 12-lG March 1901 (Zarundy). Southern part of 

 the Mountain Cove Kuch-i-tuftan; 5 May 1901 (Zarundy). 



Type: ? Leningrad. 



It seems highly probable that one of the females belongs to P. 

 dubiosa and that only two species exist. 



118. Pseudomphrale palaestinensis Krober 



Figure 112 



Pseudomphrale palaestinensis Krober, 1937, p. 229. 



The exact position of this species is in doubt at the present time 

 as I did not have permission to dissect the type specimen nor was 

 I able to compare it with other members of the group. The long 

 aedeagal parameres are reminiscent of North American Brevitrichia 

 but without a more detailed study of the ninth tergum and internal 

 structures little more can be said. 



Length: Male body 3 mm., wing 2 mm. 



Type-locality: Scopusberg, Jerusalem. 



Type: (SMNS). 



Genus Brevitrichia D. E. Hardy 



Brevitrichia D. E. Hardy, 1944a, p. 32. 



Type-species, Pseudatrichia griseola Coquillett (original designation) . 

 The genus Brevitrichia Hardy is characterized by small flies with the 

 thorax covered with a fine granular dusting which is brown to gray. 

 Head higher than long and antennae generally pear-shaped and end- 

 ing in two points with a median sensory peg. Cell R5 of the wing 

 closed and vein R4 branched from the base of cell. In the male, 

 ninth tergum bilobed, open below and aedeagus in the form of two 

 elongate bristles. Female eighth segment elongate; sternum excavated 

 posteriorly. The members of this genus are found west of the Rocky 

 Mountains in the United States and Mexico. 



Key to Species of Brevitrichia (males) 



1. Wing hyaline 2 



Wing smoky white or brown 5 



2. Halter knob tan 3 



Halter knob cream B. arnaudi, new species 



3. Abdomen black-brown or red-brown 4 



Abdomen white B. oculivirida, new species 



