278 Phoridae. 



brownish pubescence. Mesopleura bristly, with one somewhat longer 

 bristle, Abdomen somewhat robust, black, diill, with just a suspicion 

 of a gloss at apex, the very short hairs almost only visible at the hind 

 margins of the segments and slightly longer at the hind margin and 

 the sides of sixth segment. Hypopygium small and in my specimens 

 withdrawn, according to Wood it has a small, weak bristle on each 

 side beneath and a dusky ventral plate, which is broad and rounded 

 at the end; anal tube black, short and somewhat thick. Legs black 

 or brownish black, the front legs not or slightly paler; front metatarsi 

 conspicuously swollen, a little oval in shape; hind femora broad, 

 the hairs below not long; hind tibial bristles distinct, but somewhat 

 small and delicate, the dorsal hair-seam suddenly deflected anteriorly 

 in the middle. Wings clear or nearly so, veins brown or blackish, 

 thin veins paler; costa about 0,40 of the wing-length, costal divisions 

 about as 8 — 4 — 3 or sometimes 8 — 3 — 3; costal cilia moderately 

 long; angle at fork somewhat large; fourth vein evenly curved. Hal- 

 teres black. 



Female. Similar, only the front tarsi simple. 



Length 1,1 to about 1,5 mm. 



A. manicatah rare in Denmark; Holte, Hillerød (Th. Mortensen), 

 Bogø south of Sealand and in Jutland at Hejls south of Kolding 

 and Jelling (the author); in all six males and two females; my dates 

 are "/e — ^"/lo in 1917 to 1921. All my specimens have dark palpi 

 in both sexes. 



Geographical distribution: — Besides from Denmark known 

 from England, and, according to specimens from Pater Schmitz, 

 from Holland. 



38. A. pectoralis Wood. 



1910. Wood, Ent. Month. Mag. 2, XXI, 153, 200 (Phora). - 1914. Brues, 

 Bull. Wisc. Nat. Hist. Soc. XII, 126. — 1919. Schmitz, Entom. Ber. Nederl. 

 Ent. Ver. V, 141. 



Male. Frons somewhat broader than high, greyish black, very 

 sHghtly shining, nearly dull; inner bristle of lower row a little below 

 the outer and near to it, much nearer than to the upper supraantennal; 

 supraantennal bristles a little unequal, the lower somewhat smaller 

 than the upper, the upper more distant than the inner bristles of middle 

 row, the lower approximate and considerably below the upper. An- 

 tennæ somewhat large, black, arista short-pubescent. Palpi black, 

 of ordinary size, with well developed bristles. Thorax black, a little 



