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and further the ciiriously constructed female abdomen (which I am 

 inclined to think will be found in all species); the systematic imjDort- 

 ance of this latter character is already referred to by Schmitz (Wien. 

 Ent. Zeitg. XXXV, 1916, 233). I think these characters will prove 

 sufficient to distinguish any species from species of the picta-group. 

 Of the genus at present 10 species are known from the world 

 (Europe, North and South America, South Africa, Java), three of 

 these are European; one species, berolinensis, has been found in Den- 

 mark, but no doubt also fasciata will be found here. 



1, Ph. berolinensis Schmitz. 

 1920. Schmitz, Entom. Ber. Nederl. Ent. Ver. V, 253. 



Male. Frons a little higher than broad, grey, dullish or slightly 

 shining, at the anterior margin it is reddish; the median furrow 

 distinct; bristles strong, the inner bristles of lower row much below 

 the outer and rather near to each other, each bristle placed double 

 as near to the middle line as to the eye- 

 margin (fig. 123); only one pair of very 

 small, approximate supraantennal bristles. 

 Antennæ yellow, somewhat large, third 

 joint oval; arista short, short-pubescent 

 (fig. 124). Palpi yellow, the bristles short. 

 Thorax yellow, almost not shining, with 

 blackish pubescence. Scutellum with two 

 bristles; postscutellum dark. Mesopleura 

 bare. Abdomen black, dull, first segment 

 yellow and abdomen sometimes indeter- 

 minately reddish on the middle of the last 

 segments; the hairs are so small that ab- 

 domen is apparently bare, only on sixth 

 segment hairs are visible. Venter yellow. 

 Hypopygium small, unsymmetrical, with 

 a large, roundish, yellowish ventral plate; 



anal tube large, yellow or blackish with the apex a little paler, the 

 apical hairs unusually large. Legs yellow, hind femora somewhat 

 broad, with long hairs below the basal half ; hind tibial bristles strong, 

 and also the bristles on middle tibiæ strong in the upper two thirds; 

 besides the posterodorsal bristles the posterior tibiæ have also a row 

 of anterodorsal bristles in about the upper half. Wings a little yellowish 



Fig. 123. Frons of 

 Ph. berolinensis $. 



