436 Phoridae. 



1. M. galeata Hal. 



1833. Hal. Ent. Mag. I, 179 (Phora). — 1835. Macq. Suit. å Buff. II, 666, 

 1. — 1838. Meig. Syst. Beschr. VII, 414, 1. — 1887. v. Roder, Wien. Ent. 

 Zeitg. VI, 288. — 1901. Beck. Abhandl zool. bot. Geseli. Wien, I, 83, 72, Taf. V, 

 Fig. 76—78. — 1910. Kertész, Cat. Dipt. VII, 417. — 1914. Brues, Bull. Wisc. 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. XII, 140. — 1918. Schmitz, Jaarb. Natuurh. Genootsch. Lim- 

 burg 1917, 125. — Phora oligoneura Mik, 1867. Verh. zool. bot. Gesell. Wien, 

 XVII, 414, Taf. X, Fig. 10—11. — Leptophora oligoneura Mik, 1881. 1. c. XXXI, 

 348. — Leptophora perpusilla Six, 1878. Tijdschr. v. Entom. XXI, 186, Tab. 

 XII, Fig. 1 a — -d. — Drepatiophora Braueri Strobl, 1880. Programm. Seiten- 

 stet. XIV, 40. — ■ Metopina heselhausi Schmitz, 1914. Zeitschr. f. wiss. Insekten- 

 biol. X, 91. 



Male, Frons nearly square, black, not or slightly shining; the 

 bristles weak; above there is a row of six bristles of which the two 

 middle ones stand at the posterior ocelli, and these bristles are the 

 longest, two (sometimes only one) to each side near each other at the 

 iipper eye-corner, then a pair is placed at the anterior ocelliis, further 

 one at each side near the middle of the inner eye-margin, and again one 



Fig. 130. Wing of M. galeata <^ . 



at each side more forwards, in the middle between the eye-margin and 

 the median furrow, and fmally there are four forwards directed supra- 

 antennal bristles ; thus there are in all 16 (or 14) bristles. Antennæ small, 

 brown or blackish brown, arista distinctly pubescent. Palpi brownish, 

 large, flat, much widened towards the end, with about three long 

 bristles. Thorax black, dull, with brownish pubescence and one pair of 

 dorsocentral bristles. Scutellum with two bristles. Abdomen black, 

 dull, with a little paler hind margins to the segments; it is apparently 

 nude. Hypopygium not small. Legs yellowish or brownish yellow, 

 hind metatarsi somewhat broad. Wings slightly yellowish or nearly 

 clear, veins brownish or paler; costa reaching to the middle, a little 

 thickened between first and third vein; costal ciiia very short; third 

 vein not forked, but with a microscopical fissure in the apex; fourth 



