352 Phoridae. 



A, rubella is common in Denmark; Ermelund (the author), 

 Holte, Hillerød, Suserup Skov at Sorø (Th. Mortensen), Stensby 

 Skov in South Sealand, Bogø south of Sealand, Lohals on Langeland 

 (the author), on Funen at Odense (H. J. Hansen), in Jutland at 

 Hejls south of Kolding, Jelling and Ry (the author); the dates are 

 ^Vé — ^Vs in 1917 to 1921. It was generally taken with the net on bushes 

 and in low herbage in humid piaces in woods. 



Geographical distribution: — Besides in Denmark occurring in 

 Germany and down into Hungaria. 



Remarks: The above species is evidently ruhella Schmitz, and I 

 have compared it with a type specimen from the author. I thought 

 at a time that it was Collini Wood, but in that species the wings are 

 less tinged, the veins finer, the lower supraantennals minute and the 

 antennæ darker; for the rest I do not know with certainty what 

 Collini is, I have seen English specimens from Mr. Collin, but these 

 specimens had long costal cilia and were not well answering to Wood's 

 description; on the other hånd 1 have seen a specimen determined 

 by Schmitz and well agreeing with Wood's description, and this latter 

 is, I think, correct. The three species flava^ mixta and ruhella are 

 rather similar, but distinguished with certainty, flava has always 

 quite short costal cilia and pale antennæ, mixta has longer costal 

 cilia and dark antennæ and is a darker species, ruhella^ which is more 

 similar to flava in colour, has likewise longer costal cilia, a shorter 

 costa and 1 longer than 2; finally the hypopygium in flava with its 

 ventral plate is quite unlike the other two. 



100. A. anisodactyla Schmitz. 



1919. Schmitz, Entom. Ber. Nederl. Ent. Ver. V, 110 et 1919. Jaarb. 

 Natuurh. Genootsch. Limburg 1918, 162. 



Male. Frons broader than high, greyish, duU; inner bristle of 

 iower row a little below the outer and nearer to it than to the upper 

 supraantennal ; supraantennal bristles unequal, the lower small; the 

 upper supraantennals about as distant as the inner bristles of middle 

 row, the lower a little more approximate. Antennæ of ordinary size, 

 brownish black, arista short-pubescent. Palpi yellow, somewhat 

 small, with the bristles somewhat short. Thorax black, very slightly 

 shining, with dark brown pubescence. Pleura a little brownish anteri- 

 orly. Mesopleura bare. Abdomen black, dull, somewhat tapering; 

 the hairs almost only visible at the hind margins of the segments 



