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the female is strongly chitinized, twice as long as the head-height, 
stout and geniculate at the middle. 
The chsetotoxy of the hind tibiae is variable; in one male 
the hind tibia bears a bristle at the basal third and one beyond 
the middle, and in two of the females there is still another at 
the basal sixth; a single bristle just beyond the basal third is the 
most common arrangement. The front and mesonotum are 
sometimes reddish and the hind legs may be entirely yellowish. 
Dohrniphora conventa Brues. 
Ann. Mus. Nat. Hungarici, vol. 9, p. 535 (1911) (Phora) 
A long series of over sixty specimens representing both 
sexes are in the present collection. They are from Taihoku and 
Anping, taken during April and May. 
Dohrniphora mordax Brues. 
Ann. Mus. Nat. Hungarici, vol. 9, p. 531 (1911). 
A series of nearly sixty specimens of this species was ob- 
tained at Anping during May ‘^from a box with papers, etc. 
which had been eaten by termites and containing also a rat’s 
nest.” From this it is probable that this form like several of 
its congeners develops in decaying animal matter. 
Phalacrotophora Enderlein 
Phalacrotophora punctifrons sp. nov. 
9 . Length 2-2.7 mm. Fulvous yellow, mesonotum darker 
and pleura lighter below; palpi and legs testaceous; front 
piceous, yellowish near the lower margin; abdomen yellowish 
black at apex with a black spot at each side of the second seg- 
ment and a brown one at the side of the third; first, second and 
third segments with a brown streak across the hind margin, 
except at the sides. Wings strongly tinged with yellow, tire 
