138 Phoridae. 



about it: "hypopygium smaller, its flaps symmetricai, very long, 

 slender and of a yellow coloiir, and bent at the base", 



T. luteijeinorata is rare in Denmark, I have only taken it once, 

 Geel Skov ^^/s 1918, three females; they were taken on bushes. 



Geographical distribution: — The species is known from Den- 

 mark, England and Germany. 



8. T. similis Lundbk. 

 1921. Lundbk. Vidensk. Medd. Dansk nat. Foren. 72, 129. 



Male. Frons somewhat broader than high, black, not shining; 

 bristles somewhat strong, the rows straight or the anterior slightly 

 convex. Antennæ not large, brownish black; arista short-pubescent. 

 Palpi yellow or dirty yellowish, of ordinary size and armature. Thorax 

 black, a little reddish at the humeri; it is not or slightly shining, 

 with blackish or blackish brown pubescence and ene pair of dorso- 

 central bristles, Scutellum with two bristles. Pleura brownish black, 

 Abdomen black, dull, second and sixth segments a little elongated; 

 abdomen is sparingly haired with short hairs, slightly longer at the 

 hind margin of sixth segment, Hypopygium relatively not large, it is 

 reddish or blackish, the arms of the forceps unsymmetrical, the left 

 long, somewhat narrow and curved, the right a little broader, but 

 much shorter; anal tube short, with long hairs; below a large, arched 

 ventral plate is seen, and on the left side a special, triangular prolong- 

 ation. Legs yellow or brownish yellow, the hind legs being the darkest; 

 front tibiæ with a dorsal bristle above the middle, middle tibiæ with 

 a pair at the upper third and a small anterior bristle at apex, hind 

 tibiæ with two anterodorsal bristles, one at the upper third and one 

 small at apex; the upper bristles on middle and hind tibiæ not weak. 

 Wings a little yellowish or brownish yellow tinged, veins brown or 

 blackish brown; costa reaching well beyond the middle, thickened 

 from the uniting with the first vein to the end and increasing in 

 thickness outwards; 1 about equal to 2 + 3 or a little longer; fork 

 longish, the angle somewhat acute; costal cilia moderately short, 

 nearly midway between short and long; fourth vein issuing at or 

 near the base of the fork, moderately curved in its first part and for 

 the rest straight; seventh vein weak, ending about half way to the 

 margin, Halteres yellow. 



Female, Unknown, 



Length 1,7 to about 2 mm. 



