112 Phoridae. 



at Lohals, and in Jutland at Hejls south of Kolding (Th. Mortensen, 

 the author); the dates are ^Ve — ^Vs; I have taken it with the net in 

 woods in low herbage in damp localities and I have taken it in copula 

 between ^V? and ^^9; in recent times we have first taken it in 1913, 

 but in Stæger's collection there stood an old specimen determined as 

 thoracica. 



Geographical distribution: — Northern and middle Europe from 

 Southern Sweden and Norway down into Austria and Styria. 



3. P. Bergenstammi Mik. 



1864. Mik., Verhandl. zool. bot. Gesell. Wien, XIV, 793, 4 {Phora). - 

 1901. Beck. Abhandl. zool. bot. Gesell. Wien, I, 25, 12, Taf. I, Fig. 14-16 

 (Phora). — 1910. Kertész, Gat. Dipt. VII, 389, p. p. {Phora). — 1912. Malloch, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 43, 426, PI. 35, fig. 6. - 1914. Brues, BuU. Wisc. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. XII, 89, p. p. — 1917. Schmitz, Biol. Zentralbl. 37, 34, p. p. Fig. 2. 

 — 1920. Lundbeck, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk nat. For. 71, 128. — 1920. Schmitz, 

 Jaarb. Natuurh. Genootsch. Limburg 1919, 93. — Phora sphingicides Strobl 

 (nec Bouché, teste Beck.) 1892. Wien. Ent. Zeitg. XI, 197. — Phora comstocki 

 Brues (Aldrich). 1903. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. XXIX, 346^ PL V, fig. 12. 



Male. Frons considerably broader than high, black, dull; bristles 

 strong, the middle and anterior row very convex, and hence the supra- 

 antennal bristles rather near to the middle bristles of the anterior 

 row. Antennæ with the third joint a little elongated and pointed, of 

 medium size, yellow or orange; arista short-pubescent. Palpi somewhat 

 large, orange, with quite short bristles. Thorax black, a little greyish, 

 not or slightly shining, with a point at humeri and at postalar calli 

 reddish; it is clothed with black pubescence and has two pairs of 

 dorsocentral bristles. Scutellum with four about equal bristles. Pleura 

 with indeterminate reddish markings, especially above on pteropleura; 

 mesopleura bare. Abdomen black, a little greyish, second and sixth 

 segments somewhat elongated; first segment generally a little brown- 

 ish and with a narrow white hind margin ; abdomen sparingly clothed 

 with short black hairs, at the lateral margin of second segment some- 

 what dense, longer hairs, and sixth segment with longish hairs posteri- 

 orly. Hypopygium somewhat large, hairy at the sides; it is unsymme- 

 trical, the left side the smaller, with a somewhat triangular piece 

 between it and the sixth segment, the right side has a narrow piece 

 along the hind margin; below there is a long, black or reddish ventral 

 plate, reaching to the end of the hypopygium, with the right posterior 

 corner a little claw-like produced; anal tube short, yellow. Legs 

 yellow, hind femora darkened above; front tibiæ with a dorsal bristle 



