III. 
ANNALES MUSEE NAT TONALI S HUNG ARICI 
1905. 
PHORIDAE FROM THE INDO-AUSTRALIAN REGION. 
By Charles T. Brues. 
(With 1 text figure.) 
In the present paper I have the pleasure of presenting a report on 
the collection of Indo-australian Phoridae belonging to the Hungarian 
National Museum. This collection was very kindly sent to me by Dr. Ker¬ 
tész of that institution for identification and description. 
It contains 20 species, one of them forming the type of a new 
genus, while four prove to be well known European or American forms. 
The great similarity between some of the new species and certain Euro¬ 
pean ones serves to emphasize more strongly than before the compactness 
of the family group. The identity of a few species may possibly be due 
to introduction through human agency. As in Europe and America the 
greater bulk of the species fall into the genus Aphiochaeta , although 
seven genera are represented in all. 
Phora papuana n. sp. 
Male. Length 2 mm. Black, the legs, palpi and antennæ brownish 
yellow. Head short and broad, the front black, subopaque, slightly wider 
than high, anterior frontal row consisting of one pair of reclinate bristles 
close together; upper three rows of four each, straight, the median pair 
of bristles of the lower row more widely separated. Ocelli not placed on 
a distinct tubercle. Antennæ rather large, ovate, deep yellow ; the arista 
blackish, pubescent. Palpi small, yellow, without bristles except at the 
tips. Post-ocular cilia delicate ; cheeks each with two downwardly directed 
macrochætæ. Dorsum of thorax piceous black, subshining and finely 
hairy ; with one pair of dorsocentral macrochætæ. Scutellum almost four 
times as wide as long, with a® single pair of widely separated marginal 
macrochætæ. Abdomen dull black, paler at extreme base ; hypopygial 
lamella yellow, hairy, with parallel sides and obliquely rounded tip. The 
abdomen is very wide to the tip of the third segment, narrowing rapidly 
behind. Legs brownish yellow ; the posterior femora above, posterior tibiæ 
at tips and tips of four posterior tarsi infuscated. Posterior femora con¬ 
siderably swollen and flattened. Anterior tibiæ each with a series of five 
