Dohrniphora. 153 



Schmitz, Jaarb. Natuurh. Genootsch. Limburg 1917, 110 et 1920. ibid. 1919, 

 100. — Phora junehris Meig. 1830. 1. c. 221, 30. — 1864. Schin. 1. c. 338. — 

 PJiora luctuosa Meig. 1838. 1. c. VII, 412, 43. — Trineura gymnophorina Zett. 

 1848. I. c. VII, 2864, 14 et 1860 XIV, 6476, 14. — PJiora distincta Egg. 1862. 

 Verh. zool. bot. Gesell. Wien, XII, 1233. - 1864. Scbin. 1. c. 338. 



Male. Frons from slightly broader to about one and a half times 

 as broad as high, black, shining; the bristles in straight or nearly 

 straight rows or the middle row a little concave in front; the supra- 

 antennal bristles relatively smaller than in crassicornis. Antennæ 

 brown to blackish, third joint not large, but varying in size, roundish, 

 a little pointed. Palpi brown to black, of ordinary size and armature. 

 Thorax black, slightly shining, with black pubescence and one pair 

 of dorsocentral bristles. Scutellum with four practically equal bristles. 

 Abdomen greyish black, dull, second and sixth segments elongated; 

 it is very sparingly, almost invisibly haired with only some few more 

 conspicuous hairs on the apical part of sixth segment. Hypopygium 

 constriicted as in crassicornis^ but smaller and shining above, it is 

 hairy in the same way, but on the lower left corner, behind the fissure 

 there is always only one hair, but this is strong; anal tube long, greyish 

 black, or reddish towards the apex or quite reddish. Legs black, 

 the apex of anterior femora and the anterior tibiæ and tarsi more 

 or less brownish or yellowish brown, the hind knees reddish and hind 

 tarsi brown; front tibiæ with an anterodorsal bristle at the upper 

 fourth, middle tibiæ with a pair rather near the base and a smaller 

 anterior bristle near apex; sometimes one of the bristles in the pair 

 may be wanting; hind tibiæ with a various number of small antero- 

 ventral bristles, generally three to four, sometimes only one or quite 

 wanting, but generally only on one leg, and the hind tibiæ with a 

 dorsal furrow enclosed by two palisade-like rows of hairs. Wings 

 more or less brownish, sometimes quite or nearly quite colourless; 

 thick veins blackish brown, the others brown or paler; costa reaching 

 about to the middle, distinctly thickened from the uniting with the 

 first vein; 1 about double 2+3, but sometimes longer; costal ciha 

 short, but perhaps a little longer than in crassicornis; fourth vein a 

 little more curved and sixth and seventh veins generally not, or 

 not distinctly reaching the margin. Halteres yellow to black. 



Female. Antennæ a httle smaller than in the male; clypeus 

 protruding and proboscis much larger. Fourth abdominal tergite 

 narrowed, fifth and sixth wanting. 



Length 1,5 to about 3,5 mm. 



