Sept., igis] Brues: New Phorid.e from Java. 189 



and sixth very faintly sinuate ; seventh faint, straight, parallel with the sixth 

 and well removed from the anal angle of the wing. Halteres entirely black. 



One specimen from Goenceng Gedeh, Java, March ii (Jacobson). 



The hypopyginni is so small and the lamella so broadly attached 

 at the base that I was at first in doubt as to the sex of the type. The 

 two upcurved bristles at the apex of the appendage and the absence 

 of an ovipositor of any type hitherto described, make it evident that 

 the individual is a male. 

 Aphiochjeta meijerei new species. PI. XIII, fig. 7. 



Male. — Length 2.5 mm. Pale yellow; ocellar tubercle, knob of halteres, 

 an oblique spot at each side of the first abdominal segment ; third, fourth and 

 fifth abdominal segments, except a median band which extends laterally along 

 the sutures, seventh segment, and apex of hind femora black. Wings tinged 

 with yellow, especially in front ; veins brownish yellow. Front as broad as 

 high, with ocellar tubercle and median frontal groove ; four post-antennal 

 bristles, the upper ones one-third longer than the lower ones and nearly twice 

 as far apart ; bristles of next row extremely close together near the eye- 

 margin, both below the upper post-antennals ; next row of four equidistant 

 bristles forming a row curved downwards medially. Antennae small ; arista 

 pubescent, nearly twice as long as the height of the front. Palpi of moderate 

 size, with very strong bristles toward the tip. Mesonotum subshining, with 

 six bristles along the lateral margin ; one pair of dorsocentral bristles. Scutel- 

 lum nearly semicircular, with one pair of bristles and a weak hair anterior 

 to each of these. Propleura with two downwardly directed bristles below and 

 a patch of hairs forming a double row below the spiracle and extending half 

 way down the pleura ; mesopleura entirely bare. Abdomen with the second 

 segment slightly elongated, fvirnished with a patch of bristles on each side 

 which is repeated on the three following segments. Legs slender ; anterior 

 tibiae without setulae, their tarsi not enlarged ; middle tibiae with about eight 

 small setulae inside the hind edge and as many minute ones outside the edge ; 

 with one long spur; hind femora slightly ciliated below at base; their tibiae 

 with ten or a dozen rather small setulae in a single series. Wings narrow ; 

 costal vein slightly exceeding the middle of the wing, its bristles extremely 

 minute and closely placed ; first division of costa not quite as long as the second 

 which is five times the length of the third ; light veins all very weakly curved, 

 the fourth almost straight except near base and apex. Halteres with piceous 

 knob and yellowish brown pedicel. 



One female from Wonosobo, Java, April, 1909 (Jacobson). I 

 have also some specimens from Formosa. 



A species very similar to the widespread A. flava, but with fewer 

 and larger setulae on the middle hind tibae, larger lower post-antennal 

 bristles, and dark halteres. 



