120 Phoridae. 



palpi yellow, of ordinary size; wings with costa beyond 



the middle 2. unispinosa. 



— Haiteres whitish; antennæ and palpi black, the latter in 

 the male large and broad, with one strong bristle at end; 

 wings with costa not beyond middle 3. nudipalpis. 



1. P. minuta Fabr. 



1787. Fabr. Mantiss. Ins. II, 365, 11 et 1794. Ent. Syst. IV, 406, 18 et 

 1805. Syst. Antl. 142, 23 {Empis). — 1860. Loew, Zeitschr. f. Entom. Breslau, 

 XIV, 36 {Empis). — 1910. Lundbeck, Dipt. Dan. III, 6 et 189 {Phora). — 

 Trineura ruficornis Zett. 1848. Dipt. Scand. VII, 2863, 12, p. p. specimen 

 danicum. — Phora puhericornis Malloch, 1908, Ent. Month. Mag. 2, XVIII, 

 12. — 1910. Malloch, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist. 90 {StenopJiora). — 1914. Brues, 

 Bull. Wisc. Nat. Hist. Soc. XII, 96 (Dohrniphora). — 1918. Schmitz, Jaarb. 

 Natuurh. Genootsch. Limbnrg 1917, 96 (Pseudostenophora). 



Male. Frons black, shining, about one and a half times as broad 

 as high, anterior row of bristles convex. Antennæ with the third 

 joint large and pointed, brownish yellow and with a conspicuous 

 yellow pubescence; arista pubescent. Palpi small, yellow, with small 

 bristles. Thorax black, shining, with blackish pubescence and one 

 pair of dorsocentral bristles. Scutellum with two bristles. Abdomen 

 black, dull. Hypopygium yellow, with the arms of forceps symmetricai. 

 Legs yellow, hind femora and tibiæ a little darkened towards tip, 

 front coxæ yellow, posterior coxæ darker; front tibiæ without bristle, 

 middle tibiæ with a pair at about the upper third and a very small 

 anterior at apex, hind tibiæ with a dorsal bristle at about the upper 

 fourth and a not small dorsal at apex. Wings slightly tinged, veins 

 yellow; costa reaching well beyond the middle, 1 not quite double 

 2 and slightly longer than 2 + 3; fork longish, its anterior branch a 

 little oblitterated at base; costal cilia moderately short; third vein 

 strong, fourth vein issuing from about the middle of the outer branch 

 of the fork, somewhat curved in its first part; mediastinal vein not 

 reaching the first vein. Haiteres yellow. 



Female. Similar; frons less broad, antennæ not large, but pube- 

 scent as in the male; proboscis long and protruding, as long as the 

 head is high, with a large labrum; palpi smaller than in the male. 



Length 2 — 3 mm. 



As I have seen only two females of the species, both in a bad 

 State, the description is partly taken from Malloch. 



