350 « Phoridae. 



than to the iipper supraantennal ; supraantennal bristles unequal, 

 the lower at most half the size of the iipper; the upper supraantennals 

 as distant as the inner bristles of middle row, the lower slightly more 

 approximate. Antennæ of ordinary size, blackish brown, arista 

 distinctly pubescent. Palpi a little smallish, with ordinary bristles, 

 yellow. Thorax black, slightly shining, with brownish pubescence; 

 the humeri may be indistinctly reddish. Pleiira more or less brownish, 

 especially anteriorly. Mesopleura bare. Abdomen black, diill ; the short 

 hairs a little longer at the hind margins of the segments and at the 

 sides and increasing in length towards the end, so that they are a 

 little longish at the hind margin of sixth segment. Hypopygium some- 

 what small, black or brownish, with small hairs on the sides; below 

 there is a not large, triangiilarly pointed, dusky yellowish ventral 

 plate; anal tube of medium size, yellow or dark yellow, with small 

 apical hairs. Legs yellow, hind femora somewhat darkened at apex 

 with long hairs below the basal half; bristles on hind tibiæ numerous, 

 small and fme, and they are equal or nearly so in the whole series; 

 they are thus much smaller than those on the lower two thirds in 

 ilava. Wings somewhat brownish tinged, veins dark brown; costa 

 reaching beyond the middle, 1 shorter than, rarely as long as 2; 

 costal cilia short, but somewhat moderately, longer than in flava\ 

 fourth vein somewhat S-like at base, curved in its first part and 

 again at the end and here slightly recurved. Halteres yellow. 



Female. Similar; hind femora likewise with long hairs below 

 w^hich seem, however, to be a little shorter than in the male. 



Length 1,3 — 2 mm. 



A. mixta is somewhat common in Denmark; Egebæks Vang, 

 Holte, Bogø south of Sealand, on Langeland at Lohals and in Jut- 

 land at Hejls and Skamling south of Kolding, Jelling and Ry (the 

 author); my dates are ^Ve — Vs in 1917 to 1921; it was taken with the 

 net on bushes and in low herbage in woods. — I have compared my 

 specimens with a type specimen from Pater Schmitz. 



Geographical distribution: — Besides from Denmark hitherto 

 only known from Holland. 



99. A. rubella Schmitz. 

 1920. Schmitz, Jaarb. Natuurh. Genootsch. Limbiu-g 1919, 148. 



Male. Frons broader than high, greyish, sometimes a little 

 brownish anteriorly, dull; inner bristle of lower row in the same 



