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Psyche 
[ December 
This genus is based upon a single South American spe- 
cies, H. reichenspergeri described in the publications men- 
tioned above which has been found living with the termite, 
Conitermes. 
Several years ago I received through Mr. S. W. Bromley 
two wingless phorids which he had taken in a nest of the 
large Cuban leaf cutting ant, Atta insularis Guer. at San- 
tiago de las Vegas near Havana. These are undoubtedly 
referable to Homalophora, although they represent a dis- 
tinct species from the termitophilous form. The apterous 
female of Homalophora resembles the two widespread 
genera, Puliciphora and Chonocephalus, but is readily dis- 
tinguishable from the former by the absence of a curved 
slit in the fifth abdominal tergite, and from the latter by 
the presence of ocelli. 
Homalophora cubensis sp. nov. 
$ . Length 1.1 mm. Dark brown, the antennse, mouth- 
parts, thorax, legs and membranous parts of the abdomen 
testaceous. Front somewhat longer than broad ; four nearly 
equal, erect and laterally, divergent post-antennal bristles, 
the upper pair much farther apart than the lower ones. 
Occipital row as in H. reichenspergeri. Ocelli very small 
and forming a small triangle, the posterior ones very close 
to the two ocellar bristles which are set between them. 
Mesonotum twice as wide as long; with a strong back- 
wardly directed bristle near, but clearly inside of the lat- 
eral margin just behind the middle; near the posterior mar- 
gin with four bristles, each inner one twice as far from the 
other as from the adjacent lateral bristle, which in turn is 
twice as far from the lateral margin as from the adjacent 
inner bristle ; these bristles of equal size, or with the lateral 
ones somewhat stronger. Six abdominal tergites, clothed 
with sparse, minute hairs, but without stout hairs or 
bristles along the hind margins; first half as long as the 
mesonotum; second tergite twice as broad as long, nearly 
twice as long as the thorax ; third but little narrower than 
the second, but not much more than half as long; fourth 
narrower but nearly as long as the third, a little more than 
twice as wide as long, fifth smaller, twice as wide as long, 
