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Hist. Soc. XII, 98. — 1918. Schmitz, Jaarb. Natuurh. Genootsch. Limburg 

 1917, 99. — Phora nigricornis Egg. 1862. Verh. zool. bot. Gesell. Wien, XII, 

 1235. - 1864. Schin. F. A. II. 342. - 1901. Beck. 1. c. 18, 3, Taf. I Fig. 6-7, 

 Taf. IV, Fig. 62, 66. - 1910. Kertész. i. c. 394. 



Male. Frons very low and broad, nearly four times as broad as 

 high, black and shining; bristles not strong, the anterior rows slightly 

 convex. Antennæ with third joint large, about as large as an eye, 

 black, with dense, relatively longish brownish pubescence; arista 

 short-pubescent. Palpi black, somewhat broad, with short bristles 

 along the lower margin, Thorax black, slightly shining, with black 

 pubescence and one pair of dorsocentral bristles. Scutellum with 

 four equal or nearly equal bristles. Abdomen black, dull, slightly 

 greyish, second and sixth segments a little elongated, the second 

 segment fmely granulated on its front part ; 

 abdomen sparingly clothed with short hairs, 

 slightly longer at the hind margins of the 

 segments and at the sides. Hypopygium 

 very large and long, well chitinized, black 

 and shining (fig. 49); the side prolongations 

 from the tergite very unsymmetrical, on 

 the right side there is at the end a broad, ^ 



downwards curved, band-shaped prolong- Hypopygtm^seerobliquely 

 ation, somewhat serrated at the end, on from the left x 120. 



the left side there issues more forwards a 



prolongation which is deeply excised and thus forming a forceps- 

 like piece with claw-like arms the anterior of which is a little larger 

 than the posterior, and both are curved backwards; between the 

 two side prolongations the short, somewhat flat, brownish anal 

 tube is seen which has long hairs; on the ventral side of the hypo- 

 pygium some complicated appendices are seen, and there is an arched 

 ventral plate, ending in a yellowish termination; the hypopygium 

 is hairy above on the apical part. Legs black, front tibiæ and apical 

 part of femora, and also the posterior knees, brownish or yellowish; 

 front tarsi robust; the front tibiæ with a very small dorsal bristle 

 above the middle, middle tibiæ with a pair at the upper third, and a 

 small anterior at apex, and hind tibiæ with an anterior bristle at apex. 

 Wings slightly or somewhat more brownish tinged; veins brown; 

 costa reaching beyond the middle, a little thickened towards the end, 

 1 about equal to 2+3; fork somewhat long; costal cilia quite short; 

 fourth vein distinctly curved in its basal part, the seventh practically 



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