240 Phoridae. 



7. A. rufa Wood. 



1908. Wood, Ent. Month. Mag. 2, XIX, 170, $ and 1912. 2, XXIII, 97, ? 

 (Phora). — 1909. Malloch, Ent. Month. Mag. 2, XX, 35 (Phora). — 1914. Brues, 

 Biill. Wisc. Nat. Hist. Soc. XII, 130. — 1918. Schmitz, Jaarb. Natuurh. Ge- 

 nootsch. 1917, 137. — Phora pallens Wood, 1910, Ent. Month. Mag. 2, XXI, 

 150, 198, c?. — Aphiochaeta pallens 1914. Brues 1. c. 126. — Aphiochaeta rubra 

 Schmitz 1918. Ent. Ber. Neder] . Entom. Ver. V, 59, ^. — 1920. Schmitz, Jaarb. 

 Natuurh. Genootsch. Limburg 1919, 135. 



Male. Frons grey, dull, as high or little higher than broad; 

 bristles strong, inner bristle of lower row somewhat below the outer, 

 in about the middle between it and the upper supraantennal and in 

 the same height as this latter; upper supraantennals somewhat small, 

 very approximate, the lower very minute. Antennæ small, yellow, 

 arista short, very short-pubescent, apparently almost nude. Palpi 

 yellow, somewhat broad at the end, with the bristles somewhat 

 short. Thorax reddish yellow, with yellowish pubescence. Scutellum 

 with two bristles. Mesopleiira bristly, the bristles uniform, few and 

 small. Abdomen black, dull, a little greyish; it is very short and spar- 

 ingly, almost invisibly haired, only at the sides a few hairs are more 

 distinctly seen; venter yellow. Hypopygium small, but the sides pro- 

 duced somewhat downwards; anal tube yellow, rather large. Legs 

 yellow, hind femora somewhat broad, black at tip; the hind femora 

 have long hairs below on the basal half, hind tibial bristles somewhat 

 large, few in number, and on the upper fourth only small hairs. Wings 

 somewhat yellowish, veins yellow; costa about 0,41 of the wing- 

 length, costal divisions about as 22 — 13 — 6, thus 1 a little longer than 

 2+3; costal cilia short; angle at fork acute; fourth vein slightly 

 and evenly curved in about its whole length. Halteres yellow. 



Female. Similar to the male; frons slightly broader, indefmitely 

 reddish above the antennæ; lower supraantennals practically wanting; 

 palpi as in the male. Scutellum with four bristles, the anterior half 

 the size of the posterior; hind femora as in the male with long hairs 

 below the basal part; the eighth abdominal segment in my specimen 

 long and excerted. 



Length 1,5 — 1,8 mm. 



Remarks: Of this species I have a copulated pair; when I was 

 determining them I came with the male to pallens and with the female 

 to ruja in Wood's tables; by comparing the two descriptions they 

 are also seen to be very similar except as regards the scutellar bristles, 

 so that I think it beyond doubt that pallens and ruja are male and 



