342 Phoridae. 



number on leaves of shrubs between V? and ^^/t in 1920. I have taken ! 

 it in copula on ^Vs. 



Geographical distribution: — Besides in Denmark occurring in 

 England, Holland and Germany. 



92. A. propinqua Wood. 



1909. Wood, Ent. Month. Mag. 2, XX, 27, 62 (Phora). - 1914. Brues, 

 Bull. Wisc. Nat. Hist. Soc. XII, 127. - 1919. Schmitz, Jaarb. Natuurh. Ge- 

 nootsch. Limburg 1918, 160. 



Male. Frons high, as high or higher than broad, black, strongly 

 shining; inner bristle of lower row well below the outer, nearer to the 

 eye-margin than to the upper siipraantennal ; siipraantennal bristles 

 equal, the upper about in the same distance from each other as the 

 inner bristles of middle row, the lower a little more approximate. 

 Antennæ small, black or blackish brown, arista distinctly pubescent. 

 Palpi yellow or somewhat dusky, of ordinary size, with well developed 

 bristles. Thorax black, shining, with brown pubescence. Mesopleura 

 bare. Abdomen black, very slightly greyish, a little shining; the short 

 hairs are scarcely visible, only at the hind margin of sixth segment 

 they are distinct and longer. Hypopygium quite small, greyish, with 

 very small hairs on the sides ; below there is a square, yellow or dusky 

 ventral plate; anal tube quite short, yellowish. Legs brown or dark 

 brown, hind femora the darkest, front legs paler, yellow; hind femora 

 somewhat broad, the hairs below short; bristles on hind tibiæ well 

 •developed, but not strong, the dorsal hair-seam deflected anteriorly 

 in about the middle. Wings a little brownish tinged, veins brown; 

 costa generally not reaching to the middle, 1 distinctly longer than 2 

 and as long as 2 + 3 or a little longer; costal cilia short; angle at fork 

 not small; fourth vein evenly, but distinctly curved. Halteres black,* 

 the peduncle distinctly yellow. 



Female. Quite similar to the male. 



Length 0,9 to nearly 1,5 mm. 



As already remarked by Schmitz 1. c. the hind tibial bristles 

 are not, as Wood says, very small, but rather well developed. 



A. propinqua is more common in Denmark than glabrifrons; 

 Ermelund, Ørholm (the author), Holte, Suserup Skov at Sorø (Th. 

 Mortensen), Stensby Skov and Sortsø Skov in South Sealand, Bogø 

 south of Sealand, at Lohals on Langeland and in Jutland in Hals 

 Sønderskov at the east end of Limfjorden (the author); my dates 

 are 'Vs— Vio in 1917 to 1921. 



