Sept., igis] Brues: New Phorid^ from Java. 191 



insertion of the anterior coxa and one at the upper anterior angle of the pro- 

 pleura. Legs short and stout ; front coxae hairy beneath and bristly at tip ; 

 middle coxae hairy, bristly along outer margin, but scarcely so at tip ; all tibiae 

 biseriately setose ; setae of front tibiae in nine pairs ; those of middle tibiae 

 very stout, longer than the width of the tibia, in eight pairs ; those of hind 

 tibiae scarcely longer than those of the middle ones, in eight pairs, front 

 tibis with a circle of small blunt spinules at tip ; middle ones with one large 

 and three smaller spurs; hind ones with several moderate sized spurs; all 

 femora very stout, those of the four posterior legs flattened, shortly ciliate 

 below, the hind ones one-third as broad as long. Wings long and narrow; 

 costal vein extending to the middle, with short, fine, closely placed bristles, 

 first vein ending a little further from the humeral cross-vein than from the 

 tip of costa ; tip of second vein close to the tip of third, the cell at the furca- 

 tion small and narrow ; fourth vein slightly curved at base, recurved apically ; 

 fifth evenly arcuate, except for a slight rectirving at base ; sixth and seventh 

 nearly straight. Halteres yellowish white. 



Female. — Length 4 mm. Fifth abdominal segment with a brownish yellow 

 band at apex ; sixth segment piceous, brown laterally in front. Abdomen 

 with the sixth segment elongated. 



Described from a male and female taken at Batavia, Java, in 

 August, 1907 (Jacobson). 



This species is closely related to Aphiochcrta hraunsl Brues^ from 

 Cape Colony which also is properly referable to Phalacrotophora on 

 account of the extremely long front. It differs from the South 

 African species by the form of the upper row of frontal bristles, lack 

 of distinct dorsocentral bristles, shorter scutellum; short first wing 

 vein and recurved fourth vein. In color and other characters the 

 two species are very similar. 

 Plastophora javensis new species. PI. XIII, figs. 2 and 3. 



Male. — Length i mm. Thorax dull fuscous, head and abdomen piceous ; 

 legs dull yellowish, the hind femora darker ; and the fore coxae whitish hyaline, 

 with fuscous thick veins and almost hyaline light veins. Front somewhat 

 more than one-half higher than wide ; two very small, proclinate post-antennal 

 bristles ; bristles of lowest reclinate row well-developed, the mediati ones 

 nearer to the median line than to the eye-margin, far below the lateral ones 

 which are quite close to the eye-margin ; middle reclinate row equidistant, 

 curving upwards medially ; ocellar row large ; ocelli on a very indistinctly 

 defined elevation ; median frontal line present. Antennae of moderate size, 

 with apical, bare, arista on the oval third joint; antennal cavities very shallow. 

 Palpi and proboscis injured in the type so that they cannot be described. 

 Postocular cilia large, but not closely placed ; two larger bristles on each 



1 Entom. News, Vol. iS, p. 391 (1907). 



