84 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vox. VII, 
together.’’ ‘They were sent to the late M. Bigot for identification, 
and he returned them as ‘‘ ? Phora bicolor, Sch.’’ P. bicolor, 
Sch., renamed meigent, Becher, by this latter author, is now re- 
ferred to Aphiochaeta, and is a species with a reddish brown to 
blackish thorax and bare arista, and must be, I think, different 
from my species, although they are evidently closely allied. 
However, so far as can be ascertained from the remains of Dr. 
Crombie’s specimens, it seems highly probable that they belong to 
ferruginea. 
Aphiochaeta ferruginea, mihi. 
o @. India, Ceylon. Long. 2}—3 mm. 
Head.—-Brownish yellow, yellowish, often more or less tinged 
with grey, sometimes entirely greyish. Eyes black, microscopi- 
cally pubescent, posterior orbit with a row of short black bristles ; 
two strong macrochaetae below the lower angle of each eye, and 
a vertical row of short bristles on the cheeks. Antennae pale 
yellowish, varying to brownish yellow, arista long and microscopi- 
cally pubescent. Palpi brownish yellow or yellowish, with several 
shorter bristles on outer side, a few hairs on inner side and five or 
six separated strong spines towards the tip. Frons generally 
concolorous but sometimes with brownish irregular marks in the 
middle on a yellowish ground colour, the vertical impressed line 
sometimes very distinct. The frons is furnished with four rows 
of four macrochaetae in each. The upper or vertical row are 
reclinate, equidistant, the outer ones at the upper angles of the 
eyes, the median pair on the inner side of the two upper ocelli, 
and slightly below the vertical margin. Behind the vertical 
margin is a bristle on each side, almost immediately contiguous 
to the outer bristle of the vertical row. These post-vertical bristles 
are convergent. The 2nd row is just below the lower ocellus, and 
consists of four equidistant bristles, the median pair fractionally 
but perceptibly higher on the frons than the outer ones. The 
bristles in this row are generally reclinate but sometimes are almost 
at right angles to the frons. The 3rd and 4th rows are so com- 
posed as to almost make a single semicircular row of eight. They 
probably, however, represent two rows of four each, those forming 
the 3rd row placed thus: the outer pair near the eyes as usual 
(and immediately under the outer ones of the 2nd row but rather 
more distant vertically from them than these latter are from the 
vertical or Ist row); the inner bristles rather closer than usual to 
the outer ones, leaving a wide space of the frons between the 
inner pair, which latter are much lower on the frons than the 
outer pair. Of this row, the outer ones are always reclinate, but 
the median ones are often more nearly horizontal. 
The 4th row is placed wholly on the middle of the frons in a 
short semicircle, the two median ones the lowest, and the outer 
ones still proximad of the median pair of the 3rd row. Of this 
4th row, the outer ones are more or less horizontal, the median 
pair always very distinctly proclinate. 
