1924] New and Unrecorded Ajnerican Species of Phoridce 155 
NEW AND UNRECORDED AMERICAN SPECIES OF 
THE FAMILY PHORTD.E (DIPTERA)i 
Bt Charles T. Brues. 
The present short paper includes descriptions of three new 
species of Phoridse of the genera Hypocera and Aphiochacta 
and records of the occurence in North America of two European 
species, Gyninophora quartomollis Schmitz and Aphiochwta 
giraudii. I am greatly indebted to Dr. C. F. Adams by whom 
two of the new species were collected, and who has graciously 
allowed the types to remain in the writer’s collection. 
Hypocera Lioy. 
In this genus there is a group characterized by having the 
vertex semicircularly elevated and sharp above. The first 
species of this type to be described was H. coronata Becker from 
Europe, but several others have since been added. In the 
present collection made by Dr. Adams is another species from 
the United States. It may be distinguished from the other 
members of this group as follows: 
1. Ocelli forming a distinct triangle, the lateral ones as far 
from the eye-margin as from the anterior ocellus, an- 
tenna? and palpi black (Europe) coronata Becker. 
Ocelli forming a curved line, the lateral ones separated 
from the eye by only about their own diameter . 2 
2. Third vein bare, except for a few bristly hairs near base; 
wings hyaline 3 
Third vein hairy for its entire length; wings tinged with 
brown (Europe) ocellata Schmitz. 
3. Bristles near base of middle tibiae opposite one another; 
forming a pair at the basal third; median bristles of 
lower frontal row nearer to one another than to the lateral 
bristle; tip of first vein midway between tip of costa and 
humeral cross- vein 4 
^Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory of the Bussey Insti- 
tution Harvard University, No. 238. 
