1924] 
Notes on Phoridce from South Africa 
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NOTES ON PHORIDJE FROM SOUTH AFRICA.^ 
By Charles T. Brues. 
During the past summer I received from H. K. Munro, 
Border Entomologist of the Union of South Africa, a small 
collection of Phoridse obtained by him in the Cape Province. 
As he wishes to publish observations on the life-history of 
some of the species included, I am taking this opportunity to 
present descriptions of two new species and taxonomic notes on 
some of the others. 
Hypocera vectabilis Brues. 
Ann. Mus. Nat. Hungarici, vol. II, p. 1 (1913) 
There are numerous specimens of both sexes agreeing in all 
particulars with this species originally described from Abyssinia. 
More recently Schmitz has described Hypocera trinervis^ from 
Stanleyville, Congo, which he says is related to H. vectabilis, 
and which I cannot distinguish from his description. The single 
male was taken in a nest of Sima cethiops on Barteria fistulosa 
and Schmitz thinks that trinervis is probably myrmecophilous. 
The original specimens of H. vectabilis were reared from the 
bodies of dried beetles shipped from Abyssinia to the Hungarian 
National Museum in Buda-Pest. 
Some of Mr. Munro’s specimens were ^Tred from larvae 
infesting fruits of Solanum sodomeum^’ at Prospect, Komgha, 
Cape Province, March-April 1923, and others were taken in his 
office during April and May. 
Aphiochaeta picta Lehmann 
There are two typical specimens ( cT 9 ) collected by Dr. 
Munro at East London, July 26, 1922 and April 29, 1923. This 
common palaeartic species is known also fromj America, but it has 
^Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory of the Bussey Ins- 
titution, Harvard University. No. 235. 
^Deutsche entom. Zeits., 1915, p. 498. 
