SOME NEW EXOTIC PHORIDÆ. 
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Palicifora, but the habitus, spinose tibiæ with wel developed spurs, as 
well as the form and chætotaxy of the front are exactly as in certain 
typical species of Aphiochaeta. 
In color and all characters exclusive the furcation of the third 
vein, it approaches the European A. flava Fallen. 
Puliciphora matheranensis n. sp. 
(Plate VIII. fig. 3.) 
Male. Length nearly 1 mm. Piceous black, the legs, antennæ, and 
palpi brownish-yellow. Front about twice as wide as high, with an 
ocellar row of four bristles, a row of four along the anterior margin, 
which are porrect or slightly reclinate, and also a single one on each 
side about the middle near the eye-margin. Antennæ small, brown ; the 
arista slightly pubescent. Palpi strongly davate, bristly. Dorsum of 
thorax subopaque with one pair of dorsocentral macrochætæ and 
two scutellar bristles. Abdomen small, dull black, the genitalia but 
shlightly projecting; second segment slightly elongated, nearly twice as 
long as the third which is much longer than the fourth. Legs short 
and rather stout, but the tibiæ are not at all setulose. Spur of middle 
tibiæ minute, that of the hind tibiæ short, but quite distinct. Wings 
hyaline, with a very weak brownish tinge. Costal vein just attaining 
the middle of the wing, its cilia closely placed, microscopically fine 
and short. First vein meeting the costa at a point equidistant from 
the humeral cross-vein and the tip of the costa. Light veins closely 
connected with the third vein. Fourth vein straight except at the base ; 
fifth bent near the base, then parallel with the fourth to the tip ; sixth 
curved back toward the tip ; seventh distinct, nearly straight and close 
to the anal angle. Knob of halteres black, the stalk pale basally. 
One male from Matheran, India, 800 metres (Biró, 1902). 
The Indian species differs from Dahl’s P. lucifera and P. pulex 
by the apparently shorter costal vein. Unfortunately the latter two 
latter species have never been carefully described and I have never 
seen them. 
Chonocephalus dorsalis Wandolleck. 
There is one female of this species from New Guinea, Friedrich- 
Wilhelmshafen, June 1901, and another from the same place dated 
July 1901. 
