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Notes on Tropical Phoridse 
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Wales (H. J. Carter) and the female from Brisbane, 
Queensland (A. J. Turner). 
This species does not fit very well into any of the sub- 
genera adopted by Schmitz. The armature of the hind tibia 
consists really of two distinct hair-seams, but the space be- 
tween these bears the numerous oblique comb-like rows of 
bristles as described above. This condition might also arise 
from the presence of three hair-seams in which the middle 
one became broken up into a number of separated oblique 
groups. As the species does not resemble the only one of 
the two species of which I have specimens that are placed 
in the subgenus Tristcechia and as it does resemble a cer- 
tain one placed in Diploneura s. str. I have placed it there. 
Another striking character is the extremely short second 
section of the costa. 
Syneura Brues 
Syneura cocciphila Coquillett 
This species appears to be widely distributed in the 
warmer parts of America. I have recently seen specimens 
sent by Dr. M. D. Leonard reared from I eery a purchasi at 
San Juan, Porto Rico, and there are also in my collection 
others reared from Icerya in Arizona. Several South Amer- 
ican species have been described by Borgmeier, one of which 
is I think without doubt the same as S. cocciphila . This is 
S. infraposita Borgm. (Deutsch Ver. f. Wissensch. u. Kunst 
in Sao Paulo, Jahrg 3, p. 133 1922, (1923) and Arch. Mus. 
Nac. Rio de Janeiro, vol. 25, p. 227 (1925). The very com- 
plete descriptions given by Borgmeier agree closely with a 
single cotype specimen and the above mentioned examples 
reared from Icerya. Unfortunately the old descriptions of 
Coquillett and myself omit certain of the characters more 
recently used in classification and no complete description 
was available to Borgmeier. This is the only one of the 
neotropical species with the mesopleura hairy above. 
Homalophora Borgmeier 
Vozes de Petropolis, vol. 17, p. 849 (1923). 
Deutsch Ver. Wiss. u. Kunst, Sao Paulo, Jahrg 3, p. 177 
(1923). 
