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Phoridae. 



— Sixth and seventh veins in male abbreviated; no outer bristle 

 in lower frontal row; arms of hypopygial forceps with tbe 

 mentiojied process short and blunt; costa in female 0,44, 

 stretching far beyond the end of seventh vein 3. fauxiUa. 



1. C. dauci Meig. 



1830. Meig. Syst. Beschr. VI, 223, 34, ? {Phora). - 1914. Brues, Bull. 

 Wisc. Nat. Hist. Soc. XII, 106. — 1918. Schmitz, Jaarb. Natum-h. Genootsch. 

 Limbmg 1917, 119 et 1920. ibid. 1919, 107. - Conicem atra Meig. 1830 1. c. 

 VI, 226, 1, Tab. LXIII, Fig. 12-13, ^ et 1838, 1. c. VII, 411. - 1864. Scliin. 

 F. A. II, 335. - 1901. Beck. Abhandl. zool. bot. Geseli. Wien, I, 81, 69, Taf. 

 III, Fig. 59. — 1910. Kertész, Cat. Dipt. VII, 401. — Phora albipennis Meig. 

 1830. 1. c. VI, 223, 35. 



Male. Frons low, about twice as broad as higli, black, diill; 



inner bristles of lower frontal row approximate and small, outer 

 bristles wanting; supraantennals wanting. Antennæ 

 black, large and much elongated; arista somewhat 

 short, not longer than third joint, very short-pube- 

 scent. Palpi black, somewhat small, narrow, with 

 short bristles. Thorax black, dull, with blackish 

 pubescence. Abdomen black, dull, with very short 

 hairs, almost only visible at the hind margins of the 

 segments. Hypopygium large, black or greyish black, 

 the arms of the forceps with a pointed end and dist- 

 inctly haired. Legs blackish or blackish brown, front 

 legs, especially tibiæ, and all tarsi paler; front tibiæ 

 with a small dorsal bristle near the base and below 



it a row of small bristles, generally smaller than the upper bristle; 



the dorsal bristle on hind tibiæ at the beginning of the lower third 



Fig. 69. Antenna 

 of C. dauci ^ X85. 



Fig. 70. Wing of C. dauci ^ . 



longer than the upper bristles. Wings clear and quite colourless; 

 thick veins dark brown, the others colourless; costa about 0,43 

 of the wing-length ; costal cilia short and not dense; fourth vein 



