Mar., 1909.] BrUES : NeW PhORID^ FROM PHILIPPINES. 



SOME NEW PHORIDiE FROM THE PHILIPPINES. 



By Charles T. Brues, 

 Milwaukee, Wis. 



The following two species of Phoridae, both belonging to the genus 

 ApJiiochceta, were recently sent to me by Mr. Ernest E. Austen, of the 

 British Museum. Both prove to be new to science, and I have his 

 kind permission to publish descriptions of them. The types are in 

 the British Museum, and cotypes in the collections of the Public Mu- 

 seum of the city of Milwaukee. These are the first species to be pub- 

 lished from the Philippines, although many others doubtless occur 

 there, among them quite probably some of those recently described 

 from New Guinea and the neighboring islands. The present ones 

 were collected by C. S. Banks, of the Bureau of Science in Manila. 



Aphiochaeta banks!, new species. 



Jfcile and female. Length 2.5-4.5 mm. Pale testaceous, the head more or less 

 infuscated above, abdomen marked with piceous. Front as wide as long, with an 

 ocellar tubercle and median frontal groove. Four proclinate set?e, all well separated, 

 and the lower pair strong, well developed. Bases of first row of reclinate setse forming 

 a downwardly bowed line with the upper proclinate pair, all of these six being at about 

 an equal distance from the lower margin of the front and equidistant from each other. 

 Second row of reclinate setae forming a slightly curved line well above the middle of 

 the front, the lateral ones very close to the eye-margin. Ocellar row as usual. 

 Cheeks each with two stout, downwardly directed macrocbsetre and a row of small 

 bristles close to the eye-margin. Postocular cilia strong, slightly enlarged below. 

 Antennre almost spherical with dorsal, nearly bare arista. Palpi comparatively large, 

 without stout bristles. Proboscis stout and prominent, although short, of chitinous 

 structure. Thorax rather elongate, finely hairy. One pair of dorsocentral macro- 

 chsette and four strong marginal scutel- 

 lar bristles, the lateral pair being nearly 

 as stout as the median one. Margin of 

 mesonotum between the base of the 

 wing and the scutellum on each side 

 with two very strong macrocha;tK. 

 Abdomen testaceous or pale yellow, 

 marked with piceous as follows : a deli- 

 cate posterior margin on the first seg- 

 ment; a broad one on the second, which Y\G. i. — Aphiock.rla banksi, n. sp. Hind 

 is widened laterally ; third and fourth leg and wing of female, 



segments entirely black, except for a 



median elliptical space which touches the anterior margin, but is separated from the 

 posterior one by a narrow band of black ; fifth with a dark spot at the sides ; hypo- 

 pygium of male also dark. In the female the dark markings tend to weaken or to 

 become smaller. Venter pale. Legs long and stout (Fig. I ), the posterior femora 



