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ANNALES MUSEI NATIONALS HUNG ARICI. 
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A NEW SPECIES OF PHORIDAE BEARED FROM DRIED 
COLEOPTERA. 
By Charles T. Brues. 
(Contributions from the Entomological Laboratory of the Bussey Institution, Har¬ 
vard University, No. 52.) 
Several months ago I received from Dr. K. Kertész of the Hun¬ 
garian National Museum a box containing Phoriclae which he had 
reared from the dried bodies of some beetles collected at Harrar in 
Abyssinia. 
A leaden box containing a number of Coleoptera packed in wadding 
and securely wrapped in several sheets of paper, although not soldered 
was sent from Harrar to the museum, and when the box was opened 
in Budapest, Dr. Kertész found it to contain living Phoridae. Placing 
the material under a bell-jar he succeeded in rearing numerous spe¬ 
cimens representing three different species of these Diptera. It was an 
open question in his mind whether the material had become infected 
in Abyssinia or elsewhere, and I examined the flies to ascertain whether 
they belong to heretofore known species. One, an Hypocera, is remar¬ 
kably distinct and as it resembles no form occurring in Europe where 
the members of this family have been so thoroughly studied, is I think 
without doubt an Abyssinian species. A second is also possibly new, 
although it comes so near to Aphiochaeta ferruginea Brunetti from 
Tropical India, that it may prove to be only a subspecies or variety of 
that species. The Hypocera is described below. 
There are also in the box a number of specimens of another 
extremely small Aphiochaeta which I cannot determine satisfactorily 
enough to describe withouth positive knowledge of its provenience. 
Hypocera vectabilis n. sp. 
Female. Length 1*3—1*8 mm. Black, with the abdomen more or 
less reddish orange apically and the legs partly rufous. Hed small, of 
the usual form, with rounded vertex. Front shining black impunctate 
except at the insertion of sparse fine hairs; its bristles small; not 
