532 
CHARLES T. ERUES 
Fig. 1. Phora mordax, wing. 
just before the tip on the hind side. Wings (fig. 1) subhyaline, with 
a brownish tinge, veins piceous ; the costal vein scarcely attaining the 
middle of the wing, rather stout and clothed with very fine and closely 
placed bristles ; first vein ending four 
times as far from the humeral cross-vein 
as from the tip of the third vein ; se¬ 
cond vein leaving the third near its tip 
and lying so close to it as to leave an 
almost linear cell between them ; third 
vein bare. Fourth vein slightly and evenly 
curved; fifth nearly straight, ending as far from the wing tip as the 
fourth ; sixth straight, but recurved at tip ; seventh nearly obsolete, 
indicated close to the anal angle. Halteres yellow. 
Female. Differs from the male only by its stout, elongated, horny 
proboscis which is not thickened and almost equals the head height, 
and by the absence of yellow on the abdomen except on the sides of 
the first segment. The bristly area on the middle tibia is also more 
conspicuous. 
Described from nine males and three females from Takao (11) and 
Chip Chip (1) ; January to May. 
This species belongs to the section of the genus known as Dorni- 
'phora, with the proboscis of the female heavily chitinized and the 
fore tibiæ with from four to six small bristles. It is quite distinct from 
any others yet described. 
Phora fasciiventris n. sp. (Fig. 2.) 
Female. Length 4 mm. Black, with the fourth to sixth abdominal 
segments yellowish brown, the palpi testaceous, and the anterior legs 
and middle femora brownish. Head with large, stout bristles ; front one- 
fourth wider than high, the vertex very weakly convex when viewed 
from the front. Lowest pair of frontal bristles reclinate, but strongly 
projecting, close together at the anterior margin; next row above con¬ 
taining four bristles the median ones farther from each other than from 
the lateral ones, each of which is equidistant between the median bristle 
and the eye margin, the entire row strongly curved downward medially ; 
next row of four equidistant bristles, the lateral ones close to the eye 
and the row curving upward medially; occipital row as usual; ocelli 
in a small triangle ; no ocellar tubercle. Postocular cilia strong, longest 
toward the middle of the eye ; cheeks each with two long stout macro- 
chætæ. Antennæ small, short-ovate, with a finely pubescent arista as 
