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pleura bristly and witli a long bristle which is not of the lowermost, 

 but placed aboiit in the middle among the small bristles. Abdomen 

 black, dull, it is somewhat robust, but tapering towards the end; 

 second segment elongated; the hairs very short, almost only visible 

 at the sides, especially at the hind corners of second segment and also 

 at the hind margin of sixth segment. Hypopygium small, greyish, 

 for the most part withdrawn; it has a broad ventral plate, shorter 

 than the hypopygium and of yellowish colour; anal tube yellow, 

 not long, but rather high, the apical hairs somewhat large. Legs 

 brownish or yellowish brown, the front legs more yellowish, hind 

 femora a little more darkened towards the apex, on the basal part 

 below with some long, sparse hairs; hind tibial bristles (about 14) 

 distinct, but not large, in the upper third quite small. Wings slightly 

 yellowish tinged, veins brown; costa short, 0,42 of the wing-length, 

 costal divisions about as 5 — 2 — 1; costal cilia short, but only moder- 

 ately, about midway between short and long; fourth vein evenly 

 curved. Halteres black. 



Female. Unknown. 



Length 1,4 mm. 



A. pungens is rare, only one specimen, a male, has been taken, 

 Suserup Skov at Sorø ^V? 1918 (Th. Mortensen), 



Geographical distribution: — Only known from Denmark. 



Remarks: The species of the present group seem to be of rare 

 occurrence, of the three of these four species, aculeata, spinata and 

 pungens only one specimen of each is known, and of the fourth, ma- 

 nualis only three, of aculeata only a female is known, of the other 

 three only the male, so that of none of them both sexes are known. 



37. A. manicata Wood. 



1910. Wood, Ent. Month. Mag. 2, XXI, 246, 248 (Phora). - 1914. Brues, 

 Bull. Wisc. Nat. Hist. Soc. XII, 123. — 1919. Schmitz, Entom. Ber. Nederl. 

 Ent. Ver. V, 141. 



Male. Frons slightly broader than high or quadratic, black, 

 slightly shining; inner bristle of lower row a little below the outer 

 and nearer to it than to the upper supraantennal ; supraantennal 

 bristles a little unequal, the upper about as distant as the inner 

 bristles of middle row, the lower considerably more approximate 

 and a little smaller. Antennæ somewhat small, black, arista short- 

 pubescent. Palpi yellowish to blackish, of ordinary size, but not 

 broad, the bristles somewhat long. Thorax black, nearly dull, with 



