136 Phoridae. 



haired with short hairs forming rows at the hind margins of the seg- 

 ments, and with a Httle longer hairs at the sides and at the hind 

 margin of sixth segment. Hypopygium of medium size, greyish, dull, 

 but when fully exposed shining above just at the base; the side 

 prolongations of the tergite forming a forceps with unsymmetrical 

 arms, the left about double the size of the right; anal tube relatively 

 long, greyish, with longish hairs ; below there is a large, arched ventral 

 plate; the hypopygium is a little hairy on the apical part. Legs black 

 or blackish brown, tibiæ and tarsi paler to brownish, front tibiæ to 

 brownish yellow; front tibiæ with a dorsal bristle above the middle, 

 middle tibiæ with a pair at about the upper third and a smaller 

 anterior bristle at apex, hind tibiæ with two anterior bristles, onc 

 near the upper third and one at apex. Wings nearly clear; veins 

 black or blackish brown; costa well beyond the middle of the wing, 

 1 longer than 2+3; costal cilia short; fourth vein rather strongly 

 curved in its first part, for the rest straight, seventh vein very weak, 

 ending about one fourth before the margin. Halteres black. 



Female. Frons a little higher than in the male; antennæ small, 

 arista likewise nude. Palpi with the bristles longer; clypeus protruding, 

 shining; proboscis a little larger. Seventh abdominal sternite ending 

 in a long, narrow, hairy prolongation. 



Length 1,8 — - 2,5 mm. 



T. sublugiihris does not seem to be common in Denmark; Copen- 

 hagen on a window (the author), Holte (Th. Mortensen), Hareskov, 

 Ruderhegn (Kryger) and in Jutland at Hejls south of Kolding (the 

 author); the dates are ^^Z? — ^Va. In Hareskov Mr. Kryger took pupæ 

 in an old nest of a Vespa on ^U, the imagines came on ^^U — ^"/s, and 

 in Ruderhegn he took larvæ in a nest of Vespa media on ^"/g, they 

 developed next year on ^"/e — ^Ve; it seems to be mainly an autumnal 

 species. The species was for the first time taken in 1910. 



Geographical distribution: — The species is known from Den- 

 mark, England, Holland and Germany. 



7. T. luteifemorata Wood. 



1906. Wood, Ent. Month. Mag. 2, XVII, 191, 265 {Phora). — 1910. Ker- 

 tész, Cat. Dipt. VII, 393 {Phora). - 1914. Wood, 1. c. 2, XXV, 153 {Phora). 

 — 1914. Brues, Bull. Wisc. Nat. Hist. Soc. XII, 98. - 1918. Schmitz, Jaarb. 

 Natuurh. Genootscb. Limburg 1917, 101. — 1919. Schmitz, Ent. Ber. Nede]l. 

 Ent. Ver. V, 186. 



