172 Phoridae. 



a dorsal apical spur present; hind tibiæ with two dorsal palisade-like 

 rows of hairs enclosing a furrow. Wings a little yellowish or greyish 

 yellow; veins brown or the thin veins yellow; costa reaching to the 

 middle or nearly, 1 a little longer than 2; costal cilia short, third 

 vein with a little elongated swelling at apex, finely haired in its 

 whole length; fourth vein strongly ciirved in its first part, for thi 

 rest nearly straight, that and the fifth vein very diverging. H alteres 

 black. 



Female. Antennæ smaller than in the male; palpi a little broader 

 and sometimes more brownish; clypeus a little more protruding; thf 

 apical swelling on third vein larger. 



Length 2,5 — 3,2 mm. 



H. flavimana is not common in Denmark; Ermelimd, Dyre- 

 haven, Holte, Geel Skov (Th. Mortensen, the author). Ruderhegn 

 (H. J. Hansen), Klosterrishegn (C. Larsen), on Langeland at Lohals 

 (the author), in Jutland at Laven, and on Bornholm in Almindingen 

 (H. J. Hansen); besides a specimen from earlier time; the dates arc 

 ^Vs — ^°/ii. I have generally taken it on bushes. 



Geographical distribution: — Europe and down into Algeria, 

 towards the north to northern Sweden ; it also occurs in North America. 



5. H. irregularis Wood. 



1912. Wood. Ent. Month. Mag. 2, XXHI, 95, fig. 1, and ibid. 1914, XXV, 

 154. - 1914. Braes, Bull. Wisc. Nat. Hist. Soc. XII, 103. — 1918. Schmitz, 

 Jaarb. Natuurli. Genootsch. Limburg 1917, 115. 



Male. Frons broader than high, black and dull or nearly, some- 

 what punctate; the anterior row of bristles convex, the middle row 

 mucli nearer the upper than the lower row; no supraantennal bristles. 

 Antennæ rather small, black, third joint distinctly pale pubescent; 

 arista short- pubescent. Palpi somewhat large, black, with well devel- 

 oped bristles. Thorax black, very slightly shining, blackish or dark 

 brownish pubescent, with one pair of dorsocentral bristles. Scutellum 

 with four bristles, the anterior about half as large as the posterior. 

 Mesopleura a little hairy above just on the anterior part. Abdomen 

 black, a little greyish, dull, second segment elongated; it has quite 

 short hairs, but is a little more distinctly haired than in flavimana; 

 at the hind corners of first segment are long hairs, and also at the hind 

 corners of second segment the hairs a little long. Hypopygium small, 

 greyish, shining above at base and quite resembling that in flavimana. 

 Legs as in flavimana and coloured mainly in the same way, but middle 

 tibiæ reddish at the end and posterior tarsi brownish red; the tibiæ 



