248 Phoridae. 



14, A. latifemorata Beck. 



1901. Beck. Abhandl. zool. bot. Gesell. Wien, I, 67, 64, Taf. III, Fig. 58 

 {Phora). — 1910. Kertész, Cat. Dipt. VII, 408. — 1914. Brues, BuU. Wisc. 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. XII, 122. — 1918. Schmitz, Jaarb. Natuurh. Genootscb. Lim- 

 burg 1917, 140. 



Male. Frons considerably broader than high, black, a little greyish, 

 dull; bristles strong, the inner bristle of lower row a little below the 

 outer, in about the middle between it and the upper supraantennal ; 

 the supraantennal bristles not large, unequal, the lower about half 

 the size of the upper or smaller; the upper supraantennals more ap- 

 proximate than the inner bristles of middle row, the lower slightly 

 more approximate. Antennæ blackish or blackish brown, somewhat 

 large, reaching to about the middle of the eye, arista not long, short- 

 pubescent. Palpi dark yellow to brown, of ordinary size and armature. 

 Thorax black, very slightly shining, with blackish pubescence; there 

 is one pair of dorsocentral bristles, but besides there is a bristle more 

 forwards and outwards, placed forwards and inwards to the postalar 

 bristle; it may, I think, be termed an intraalar bristle. Scutellum 

 with four equal bristles. Mesopleura bare. Abdomen black, a little 

 greyish, dull; it has short hairs, a little longer at the hind margins 

 of the segments and at the sides; at the sides of second segment a 

 row of bristles and sixth segment with bristly hairs at the hind margin. 

 Venter distinctly haired. Hypopygium rather small, greyish, shining 

 below at the sides and with some hairs; anal tube large, high and 

 compressed, but narrow at base, it is yellow, more or less darkened 

 at the base; sometimes a broadly rounded yellowish ventral plate 

 is seen. Legs blackish brown, the front legs paler to yellowish brown; 

 hind femora rather dilated and the dilatation continued towards the 

 apex so that the dorsal margin here curves abruptly down; they 

 have long hairs below on the basal half and the hairs on the anterior 

 ventral margin towards apex are somewhat long and bristly; hind 

 tibial bristles strong, 10 — 12 in number, on the basal half they increase 

 in size downwards to below the middle, then they are generally 

 smaller and the apical one is again larger, but often they are more 

 equal in size. Wings strongly brownish, veins brown; costa reaching 

 beyond the middle, 1 about equal to 2, shorter than 2 + 3; costal 

 cilia moderately short or a little longer; fourth vein rather curved in 

 its first part, for the rest nearly straight. Halteres yellow or dark 

 yellow. 



Female. Similar to the male; antennæ smaller; on the ventral 



