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Psyche 
[April 
ANOTHER ‘‘SNOW” PHORID (DIPTERA) 
By Charles T. Brues. 
Bussey Institution, Harvard University. 
Since the preparation of the note in the last issue of Psyche 
(Notes on Some New England Phoridse, vol. 31, p. 44, February 
1924) I have received from Mr. C. W. Johnson specimens of 
another species of Phoridse taken in midwinter in Maine. 
These prove to be Trupheoneura microcephala Loew and 
strangely enough the five specimens which form the series are 
all males. They were collected together with some other “snow’^ 
insects at Woodland, near Caribou in Northern Maine by Mr. 
Olaf 0. Nylander on December 1, 1917. Reference to the 
Monthly Weather Review for November and December of that 
year indicates that there was no warm spell at that time, nor at 
any time during either month. As the maximum temperature 
recorded for Maine during December was 47° (at Eastport on 
Dec. 9) it is evident that the flies were active at a considerably 
lower temperature in this more northerly inland section. More- 
over, the presence of males strongly suggests that the species 
may even breed at this time of the year. Further south the same 
species (including the female) has been taken in the vicinity of 
Washington, D. C. on January 1, January 7 and March 29, 
according to Malloch (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 43, p. 422 (1912.) 
