TWO NEW SPECIES OF PHORID/E, 
BY CHARLES T. BRUES. 
APHIOCH^TA LONGIFRONS, Sp. nOV. 
Male. Length 2 mm. Brownish-yellow ; dorsum just before 
scutellum, tips of posterior femora, and most of abdominal seg- 
ments, 2, 3, 4 and 6, black. Wings infuscated on apical third. 
Head long and much flattened ; front about two and one-half 
times as high as wide, rather sharply margined on the vertex, the 
ocelli not situated on a tubercle, but the median frontal line is 
distinct. Front brownish-yellow, blackened about the ocelli, sub- 
shining, but with a sparse and very coarse punctuation. Two 
proclinate bristles ; next two rows above these consisting each of 
only two bristles, the median pair of each row being absent. The 
lower pair are placed midway between the median line and the eye, 
and the upper pair close to the eye margin. Third row and 
ocellar row complete, the third strongly bowed upward. Antennae 
rather small, yellow, with long pubescent arista. Palpi pale 
testaceous, with normal bristles, short and broad in shape. Cheeks 
each with a series of long bristles and one especially stout 
macrochaeta at the lower end of the eye. Thoracic dorsum light 
yellow, with a medium brownish vitta, posterior one-third blackish, 
with unusually strong and bristly hairs posteriorly. One pair of 
dorsocentral machrochaetae present. Scutellum whitish yellow, 
black at base ; with four equally strong marginal bristles. Pleurae 
pale, with a black stripe extending from the dorsum one-half way 
to the trochanters. Abdomen testaceous yellow ; the second 
segment black posteriorly and widely so on the sides ; third and 
fourth segments black, with yellow semi-circular markings 
anteriorly, fifth pale, sixth black. Venter pale. Hypopygium 
small, with four somewhat bristly hairs near the base of the long 
slender lamella. Legs very stout, testaceous, the tips of the 
posterior femora black, and the posterior tibiae and tarsi lined with 
black. Four posterior tibiae biseriately setulose, the setulae large, 
almost equalling the width of the tibia on the hind legs, and on the 
middle legs fully as long as the greatest width of the middle tibia. 
Anterior tibiae also with a single series of short and very closely 
placed setulae. Tarsi of four posterior legs long and slender, 
those of the front legs no longer than the tibia, with thick, short 
joints, the third, fourth and fifth being nearly quadrate. Wings 
long and narrow, hyaline, distinctly infuscated on apical third, the 
discal veins but little curved. Costal vein reaching to the middle 
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