5^32 Phoridae. 



with ordinary bristles. Clypeus protruding, black and shining. Thorax 

 black, slightly shining, a little reddish about the humeri, with blackish 

 pubescence and one pair of dorsocentral bristles. Scutellum with four 

 bristles, the anterior small. Pleura blackish, downwards brownish. 

 Abdomen blackish, dull, slightly hairy, the hairs best observable 

 at the sides; at the lateral margin of second segment there are about 

 three long hairs and below the sixth segment there is on each side a 

 long hair. The seventh sternite a little prolonged in the middle. Legs 

 not slender, hind tibiæ a little thickened towards the end; the legs 

 are yellowish or brownish yellow, the femora, especially posterior 



Fig. 50. Wing of T. pauciseta ?. 



femora more brownish; front tibiæ with a dorsal bristle above the 

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

 small anterior bristle at apex, hind tibiæ with an anterodorsal bristle 

 above the middle and a quite small anterior bristle at apex. Wings 

 a little brownish tinged, veins brown; costa reaching well to the 

 middle; 1 about equal to 2 + 3; fork unusually long and the angle 

 very acute; costal ciha somewhat short; third vein thickened in its 

 whole length and bearing an open row of fme bristles stretching to 

 the base of the fork, the last bristle placed on the base of the anterior- 

 branch of the fork; fourth vein issuing far beyond the base of the 

 fork, near the end of third vein, it is evenly curved in its whole length ; 

 seventh vein long, interrupted just before the margin. H alteres 

 blackish. 



Length fully 2 mm. 



T. pauciseta is rare, only two females have been taken; Bogø 

 south of Sealand V? 1917 and at Lohals on Langeland ^V? 1920 (the 

 author). 



Geographical distribution: — Besides the Danish specimens only 

 one other specimen, likewise a female, is known, taken by Schmitz 

 in Dutch Limburg, while the male still remains unknown. 



