1944] 
New Neotropical Phoridoe 
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NEW NEOTROPICAL PHORIDOE 
By Charles T. Brues 
Biological Laboratories, Harvard University 
Most of the material dealt with in the present communication 
was contained in a collection belonging to the Entomological 
Department of Cornell University. This was sent to me for 
identification and the holotypes of the new species have been 
returned to the Cornell museum. 
Several of the species were collected on the western slope of 
the Andes in central Peru by Professor J. C. Bradley when he 
visited the region with an expedition from Cornell University 
in 1920. Others were obtained during the same year, on the 
very interesting Chiloe Island, which lies in the Pacific Ocean, 
just off the Chilean coast. 
One species collected some years ago in Cuba by the writer 
is included also. 
Diploneura Lioy 
Diploneura ( Dohrniphora ) pyricornis sp. nov. 
$ . Length 2.5 mm. Brownish testaceous; front black above, 
shading to pale yellowish brown below at the frontal margin; 
abdomen honey yellow with the extreme sides of the third and 
fourth tergites black; antennae very pale, clear yellow; palpi 
and legs concolorous with the body. Front fully one-third wider 
than high, its surface smooth and noticeably shining but not 
punctate. Postantennal bristles very close together; lower 
transverse row of four bristles straight, the median bristles 
equidistant from one another and from the eye margin, the 
lateral bristles removed from the eye by a short distance; upper 
frontal row of four with the median pair very slightly higher 
than the lateral ones, each directly above the lower median 
bristles, but the lateral ones are very close to the eye-margin; 
ocellar row of four bristles, with the median ones much nearer 
to one another than to the lateral bristles. Ocelli in a very low 
triangle or curved line. Antennae pyriform or conical, really 
more or less crescent-shaped, as the edge next the face is con- 
