110 Phoridae. 



with black pubescence; one pair of dorsocentral bristles. Scutellum 

 with four bristles, the anterior one third of the length of the posterior. 

 Mesopleura black, a little shining, hairy and with one very long bristle 

 behind. Abdomen rather short, black, a little greyish, dull; second 

 segment elongated and also sixth somewhat long; abdomen very 

 sparingly clothed with short black hairs, slightly longer at the hind 

 corners of second segment. Hypopygium small, as far as I could see 

 not symmetricai, the left side of the tergum the largest, with long 

 hairs below, the right side smaller, with strong bristles at the margin, 

 and with a small, narrow piece below; anal tube short, not or almost 

 not protruding. Legs black, front tibiæ and tarsi a little paler, just 

 the apex of coxæ and the trochanters generally more or less pale, 

 and the knees narrowly pale; hind femora very broad; front tibiæ 

 with a dorsal bristle a little above the middle, middle tibiæ with a 

 pair at about the upper third and an anterior at the lower third, 

 hind tibiæ with two anterior bristles, one at about the upper third 

 and one near apex; all bristles strong; middle tibiæ with two, hind 

 tibiæ with a number of apical spurs of various length ; the hairs below 

 femora a little longish, especially towards apex; hind tibiæ with a 

 furrow from the upper bristle downwards (in which the bristle may 

 be laid down), and with the short hairs on the dorsal and partly the 

 posterior side arranged in dense, comb-like transverse rows; hind 

 metatarsi below besides the small bristles with three or four longer 

 bristles. Wings brownish, veins brown; costa not reaching the middle; 

 1 considerably longer than 2 + 3; costal cilia somewhat short; third 

 vein with the single bristle at the base distinct. Halteres yellow. 



Female. Similar to the male; antennæ a little smaller; bristles 

 on palpi a little longer; wings with the costa longer. 



Length. The species may vary rather much in size in both sexes, 

 the length from scarcely 2 to fully 3,5 mm. 



P. Bohemanni seems not at all common in, Denmark as I have 

 taken it only in two localities, Ermelund, where I have taken it in 

 some numbers in 1917 to 1921 at the dates from ^^4 to ^^5 and at 

 Aalborg, where I took a single female ^^e 1921; it is thus a spring- 

 species; it occurred in a humid place in the wood in low herbage, 

 especially consisting of Aegopodium podagraria, and I took it in 

 copula on ^/s, ^/s and '^^U. I have never bred it, though I have collected 

 snail-shells in the said locality; I have only seen three puparia in a 

 H. pomatia, taken by Mr. Kryger in Ermelund on ^"/i but they were 

 empty; in snail-shells from other localities it has not occurred. 



