260 Phoridae. 



Group II. 



Scutellum with two bristles. 

 Mesopleura bristly, with one or more longer besides the small bristles. 



Costa long. 



23. A. rudis Wood. 



1909. Wood, Ent. Month. Mag. 2, XX, 25, 60 (Phora). — 1914. Brues, 

 Bull. Wisc. Nat. Hist. Soc. XII, 130. — 1919. Schmitz, Jaarb. Natuurh. Ge- 

 nootscli. Limburg 1918, 150. 



Male. Frons somewhat broader than high (about IV3 — 1), 

 greyish, dull; inner bristle of lower row below the outer, rather near 

 to it and to the eye-margin; supraantennal bristles eqiial or nearly 



Fig. 84. Wing of A. rudis ^. 



equal, the upper distant, distinctly more distant than the inner 

 bristles of the middle row, the lower approximate and placed far down 1 

 at the anterior point of the frons. Antennæ somewhat large, blackish, ji 

 arista short-pubescent. Palpi yellow or dusky yellow, narrow and ' 

 somewhat small, but with the bristles long. Thorax black, very slightly . 

 shining, pubescence brown or pale brownish. Pleura somewhat shining 

 below. Mesopleura bristly with one long bristle. Abdomen black, dull, i 

 very short hairs visible only at the hind margins and hind corners 

 of the segments, and at the hind margin of sixth segment they are 

 slightly longer. Hypopygium somewhat large, knob-like, blackish )l 

 grey or sometimes reddish grey; it has a series of hairs on the sides, 

 the hindmost of which is the strongest or forming a real bristle, a 

 little curved; anal tube somewhat large, yellow (rarely black, Wood); 

 subanal body generally exposed and presenting a large, black polished, 

 hook-like piece with a broader one at its base. Legs yellow, the post- 

 erior may be slightly darker, especially the apical part of hind femora; 

 front tarsi a little stout; hind femora with long hairs below the basal 

 half ; hind tibial bristles distinct and not short, but fme. Wings yellow- 



