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Phoridae. 



nigripes (= atripes), but it is distinct from this species among others 

 by the hypopygium and the hairs below hind femora. The species in 

 this group are difficult and I still possess a coiiple of specimens belong- 

 ing here which may be different, but which I cannot at present char- 

 acterize. 



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63. A. sepulchralis Lundbk. 

 1920. Lundbk. Vidensk. Meddel, fra Dansk natiirh. Foren. 71, 12, 14. 



Male. Frons low, about - twice as broad as high, black, duU ; 

 inner bristle of lower row in the same height as the outer and the 

 bristles of the lower row and the upper supraantennals placed in a 

 straight transverse line; the inner lower bristle placed a little nearer 

 to the outer than to the upper supraantennal ; supra- 

 antennal bristles equal or nearly so, the upper in the 

 same distance from each other as the inner bristles 

 of middle row or slightly more approximate, the 

 lower almost not more approximate than the upper. 

 Antennæ black, rather large, in profile reaching to 

 the middle of the eye, arista very short-pubescent. 

 Palpi black, somewhat large, with long bristles. 

 Thorax black, a little shining, with blackish pube- 

 scence. Mesopleura with uniform bristles. Abdomen 

 black, slightly greyish, dull, it has short hairs on 

 the hind parts of the segments, slightly longer at the 

 hind margins; at the hind margin of sixth segment 

 they are distinct, but not long, only longer at the 

 sides. Hypopygium small, black, shining above at 

 the very base; there are no bristles, but downwards 

 on the sides there are short and small, somewhat 

 dense hairs and at the basal corners are longer hairs 

 in a vertical row, the lowermost the longest; ventral 

 plate dusky yellow, short, triangularly rounded; 

 anal tube of medium size, deep black, somewhat 

 hairy, but without apical hairs. Legs quite black or 

 blackish, only front tibiæ and tarsi a little paler; 

 front tarsi not really thickened, but distinctly stout, the three last 

 joints as broad as long and the pulvilli somewhat large (fig. 96); hind 

 femora below on the basal half with a fringe of somewhat short, but 

 rather dense and strong bristles, shortest, but strongest towards the 



Fig. 96. 



A. sepulchralis ^ , 



front tarsus from 



below X 80. 



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