118 Phoridae. 



out tlie difTerences and the synonymy, and to this I refer. As Zetter- 

 stedt says "'Stæg. in litt." the name notata is originally due to 

 Stæger, 



3, Parastenopliopa Malloch 1910. 



[Woodia Malloch, Glasgow Naturalist I, 1909,28; Stenophora Malloch, ibid. 27; 

 Pseudostenophora Malloch, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 43, 1912, 412). 



Species of small to medium size (about 1 — 4 mm). Frons varying 

 in breadth, from almost quadratic to nearly double as broad as high; 

 there are three rows of bristles, each with four bristles; one pair of 

 smaller supraantennal bristles directed backwards. Eyes hairy. 

 Antennæ inserted low down near the oral margin, third joint generally 

 small, but sometimes more or less to considerably enlarged in the 

 male; arista dorsal, pubescent, often the most in the female. Clypeus 

 often protruding and then especially in the female; proboscis some- 

 times rather large in the female. Palpi sometimes enlarged in the 

 male and with small bristles, sometimes upon the whole rather small 

 (miniita). There are small oral and distinct genal bristles; one longer 

 postocular bristle below. Thorax with one pair of dorsocentral bristles. 

 Scutellum with two bristles. Pleura bare. Abdomen generally with 

 second and sixth segments a little elongated. Hypopygium not large, 

 the tergite short above, on each side prolonged into a more or less 

 band-shaped prolongation forming a kind of forceps, the prolonga- 

 tions or arms of the forceps may be symmetricai or unsymmetrical; 

 anal tube short, sometimes not or almost not protruding, sometimes 

 flattened; a large, more or less arched ventral plate present. In the 

 female abdomen terminating with two small styliform lamellæ, 

 directed downwards. Abdomen sparingly haired. Legs of normal 

 shape, but sometimes (in non-Danish species) unusually long and 

 slender; front tibiæ generally with one dorsal bristle (in miniita with 

 none), middle tibiæ with a pair at about the first third, and a small 

 one on anterior side at apex, sometimes wanting, hind tibiæ with 

 one dorsal bristle at or above the middle, and one, generally small, 

 anterodorsal at apex, sometimes wanting; the legs as usual clothed 

 with short liairs, on the apical part of posterior side of hind tibiæ 

 and on posterior side of hind tarsi arranged in comb-like transversei 

 rows; the middle tibiæ have the hairs on the dorsal side in the apical 

 half dense and a little longer. Claws and pulvilli normal and empodium 

 small and bristle-shaped. Wings with costa shorter or longer and 

 the costal cilia likewise short or soméwhat long; third vein forked. 



