X40 Phoridae. 



very small at apex. Wings brownish tinged, veins brown ; costa reaching 

 somewhat beyond the middle, from the uniting with the first vein 

 gradually a little swollen outwards, but not exactly thickened, the 

 divisions proportionally as 19 — 17 — 8; third vein a little thick, the 

 fork rather acute; costal cilia moderately short; fourth vein issuing 

 a little beyond the base of the fork, somewhat strongly curved in its 

 first part; seventh vein weak, only reaching half way to the margin. 

 H alteres whitish, 



Female. Quite similar to the male; antennæ a little smaller; 

 palpi narrower and narrowed at the base, bristles ordinary, especially 

 one long at apex; clypeus somewhat protruding, shining. On the 

 venter the fiftli segment is bare with a transverse row of bristles 

 at the hind margin, the sixth is densely hairy, the seventh ventral 

 sternite is elongated, broadly roimded at the end. Legs more dark 

 brown with the femora blackish or blackish brown. Wings with 1 

 about equal to 2, veins blackish brown. 



Length 1,7 — 2,5 mm. 



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

 Geel Skov ^7io 1919, two females; they were taken on bushes. Schmitz' 

 specimens, one male and one female, were taken on a dead fowl on 

 ^^/i — ^'/s. The above description of the male is taken from a German 

 specimen which Pater Schmitz has taken later on at Bonn and kindly 

 sent to me. 



Geographical distribution: — The species is known from Den- 

 mark and Germany (Kiel and Bonn). 



10 T. excisa Lundbk. 

 1921. Lundbk. Vidensk. Meddel. Dansk nat. For. 72, 130. 



Male. Frons low and broad, more than twice as broad as high, 

 black, not shining; bristles well developed, the middle row a little, 

 the anterior distinctly convex. Antennæ black or brownish black, 

 third joint somewhat large and conspicuously pubescent; arista 

 pubescent. Palpi black, rather narrow, with the bristles short. Thorax 

 black, a little greyish, very slightly shining or nearly dull; it has 

 black pubescence and one pair of dorsocentral bristles. Scutellum 

 with two bristles. Abdomen black or greyish black, dull, sparingly 

 clothed with short hairs, a little more distinct at the hind margins of 

 the segments. Hypopygium somewhat large, reddish grey, the left 

 arm of forceps yellowish; it is unsymmetrical, the tergite has above 



