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Notes on Tropical Phoridse 
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NOTES ON SOME TROPICAL PHORIME 1 
By Charles T. Brues 
The following notes and descriptions are based on ma- 
terial contained in several small collections of Phoridse re- 
ceived for identification from correspondents. 
Diploneura Lioy 
Diploneura (Diploneura) scoparia sp. nov. 
$ . Length 2.5 mm. Thorax and most of abdomen yel- 
lowish brown; head and abdominal markings black; wings 
tinged with brown and distinctly infuscated apically. An- 
tennae brown, palpi reddish yellow ; pleurae and legs brown- 
ish yellow, the hind femora tipped with black ; scutellum pi- 
ceous; abdomen above rather bright yellow with a lateral 
spot on the second to sixth tergites ; these increase in width 
behind. Those on the second small and those on the sixth 
are nearly coalescent ; posterior borders of the tergites yel- 
low; hypopygium black; wing veins very dark brown, the 
infuscated area of the wing including the apical fourth and 
most of the cell anterior to the fourth vein. Front as high 
as broad, its bristles all very large and strong; two postan- 
tennal bristles, inserted very close together and widely di- 
vergent; lowest row of four equidistant, the middle ones 
placed distinctly lower than the lateral ones which are al- 
most as far from the eye margin as from the inner 
bristles ; upper frontal row of four equidistant, curved up- 
wards medially with the lateral one close to the eye. Ocelli 
large, the occipital ridge sharp, but not elevated ; postocular 
cilia very strong; cheeks each with two conspicuous, down- 
wardly directed bristles, also a smaller bristle inside the 
eye-margin just below the antenna. Palpi stout, broadened 
1 (From the Entomological Laboratory, Harvard University). 
