1924] 
Notes on Phoridce From South Africa 
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setae inside the posterior edge; hind tibia with a similar series of 
seven much larger ones, which are considerably longer than the 
width of the tibia, excepting the basal two which are much 
shorter. Costa barely less than four-ninths of the wing length, 
its bristles long (four times the width of the costal vein) and 
sparsely placed (five beyond the tip of the first vein) ; first section 
of costa slightly longer than the second and third together; 
third two-thirds the length of the second; second vein emerging 
from the third at a very acute angle; fourth vein faintly curved 
at base, straight beyond; fifth and sixth nearly straight; seventh 
weakly curved, well removed from the margin. Wing rather 
long and narrow. Halteres with black pedicel and light brown 
capitulum. 
Type from Barberton, Cape Province, South Africa, May 
22, 1913. 
This species resembles the European Aphiochoeta fusco- 
halterata Schmitz, but is at once distinguished by the large 
bristles on the hind tibiae. It is similar to A. decipiens Wood 
{=zcilipes Wood), but the bristling of the hypopygium will 
readily separate it from that species. It resembles A. atrita 
Brues from Java in color and many characters, but the ciliation 
of the hind tibia is very much stronger. 
Puliciphora africana Brues (Fig. 1) 
Ann. Mus. Nat. Hungarici, vol. 5, p. 410, fig. (1907) 
Brues, Psyche, vol. 17, p. 36 (1910) 
Numerous specimens of both sexes are referable to this 
species, described from females obtained at Kibosho, German 
Fig. 1. Puliciphora africana (T wing. 
