96 Phoridae. 



on palpi a little longer and the abdominal segments of about equal 

 length except the longer sixth segment which latter has rather long 

 hindmarginal bristles. 



Length 2,3 — 3,5 mm, the female generally the larger. 



Ch. fennica does not seeni to be rare in Denmark, Ermelund 

 (the author), Holte, Suserup Skov at Sorø (Th. Mortensen), Vemme- 

 tofte (H. J. Hansen), on Langeland at Lohals (the author), on Lol- 

 land at Ryde (Schlick), in Als Sønderskov (Th. Mortensen) and in 

 Jutland at Hejls south of Kolding and Jelling (the author); the 

 dates are^Vs— Vs. In Ermelund I took it numerously bn a dead sparrow 

 on ^"/e, at Lohals below a dead mole on ^^Z?, and at Hejls below a 

 newly dead crow on ^V?; in the first case both sexes were present and 

 a pair in copula was taken, in the second case only females were 

 present, and in the third all but one were females. 



Geographical distribution: — Northern and middle Europe from 

 Finland to Holland, and in England. 



2. Ch. curvinervis Beck. 



1901. Beck. Abhandl. zool. bot. Geseli. Wien I, 33, Taf. II, Fig. 25 [Phora). 



- 1906. Wood, Ent. Month. Mag. 2, XVII, 194 [Flioni). - 1910. Kertész, 

 Cat. Dipt. VII, 391 (Phora). - 1912. Malloch, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 43, 423. 



- 1914. Brues, Bull. Wisc. Nat. Hist. Soc. XII, 87. - 1918. Schmitz, Jaarb. 

 Natuurh. Genootsch. Limburg, 1917,91. — Trineura fuscipes Zett. 1848. Dipt. 

 Scand. VII, 2871, 21. 



Male. Frons twice as broad as high, only very slightly shining; 

 bristles strong, all three rows nearly straight. Antennæ with the 

 third joint of ordinary size, a little pointed, brownish black, palest 

 below; arista short-pubescent. Palpi black, brownish at apex, bristles 

 ordinary. The oral bristles forming a dense bunch and also the genal 

 bristles conspicuous, rather numerous (about five) and nearly con- 

 fluent with the oral bristles. Thorax black, a little shining, with 

 brownish pubescence and one pair of dorsocentral bristles. Abdomen 

 black, a little greyish, sixth segment the longest; abdomen sparingly 

 haired with short hairs quite as in fennica only the marginal hairs 

 on sixth segment less long. Hypopygium black and shining above, 

 as far as I could see constructed mainly as in fennica; anal tube 

 blackish, a little pale at apex, with a circlet of long hairs round the 

 end. Legs blackish or brownish black, knees, front tibiæ and all tarsi 

 paler; front tibiæ with a strong dorsal bristle in the middle, middle 

 tibiæ with a pair near base and an anterior near apex, hind tibiæ 

 with three bristles, a dorsal in the middle and two anterior, one at 



