272 Phoridae. 



Geographical distribution: — This common species besides in 

 Denmark is at present known from England, where it is likewise 

 common, and, according to speciméns sent to me from Pater Schmitz, 

 from Holland; it also occurs in Germany. 



32. A. stichata Lundbk. 



1920. Lundbk. Vidensk. Meddel, fra Dansk naturh. Foren. 71, 3. 



Male. Frons somewhat broader than high (1^/2 — 1), greyish 

 black, dull; inner bristle of lower row a little below the outer and 

 nearer to it than to the upper supraantennal ; supraantennal bristles 

 nearly equal, the lower, however, the weaker; upper supraantennals 

 in about the same distance from each other as the inner bristles of 

 middle row, the lower a little more approximate. Antennæ black, of 



ordinary size, arista distinctly pubescent. 

 Palpi yellow, of fair size, with well 

 developed bristles. Thorax black, very 

 slightly shining, with brownish pube- 

 scence. Mesopleura bristly, with one 

 bristle longer than the others. Abdomen 



^. ^„ , . , . , black, a little greyish, dull, generally 



Fig. 87. A. stichata S , hind . ' , ,. • 



femur from the outside X 65. ^ith more or less distmct, very narrow, 



paler hind margins to the segments; 

 abdomen has short hairs, a little longer at the hind margins of the 

 segments and at the sides; on sixth segment the hairs at the hind 

 margin are longish; on the venter there are hairs at the hind margins 

 of the segments. Hypopygium of medium size, knob-like, greyish, 

 sometimes reddish grey; on each side there are about three bristly 

 hairs near the lower margin, directed more or less downwards, and 

 at the hinder dorsal margin there are some small hairs directed back- 

 wards; anal tube not large, yellow; there is a broad and rounded, 

 yellowish or dusky ventral plate. Legs yellowish brown hind femora 

 somewhat blackish brown, front legs paler to yellowish; hind femora 

 with a dense row of somewhat short hairs below the basal half, these 

 hairs have the apices curved backwards and touching each others, 

 thus forming a characteristical fringe (fig. 87); hind tibial bristles 

 distinct, though not strong, about of medium size, the dorsal hair- 

 seam deflected towards the anterior from the middle downwards. 

 Wings rather dark tinged, veins brown, thin veins blackish brown; 

 costa reaching nearly half the wing-length (0,46 — 0,47), the divisions 



