450 
Melinda cognata Meigen 
scutelli margine setis duabus; halteribus flavis.—Frons lata nigra opaca; 
antennis mediocribus fulvis, arista vix pubescente, palpis flavis.—Abdomen 
nigrum opacum, secundo et sexto segmentis longioribus, anguste niveo- 
marginalis.—Pedes toti flavi, femoribus posticis dilatatis; tibiis anticis antice 
unispinosis; tibiis mediis antice et apice unispinosis; tibiis posticis in medio et 
apice bispinosis.—Alae fere hyalinae, margine antico setulis brevibus.—Longit. 
corp. 2 mm. Patria: Gallia. 
Afflnis Phorae unicalcaratae Beck et erythronotae Strobl. 
Phora unispinosa Zett. I found the larvae and pupae of this insect in dead 
H. aspersa picked up in the garden of the “Ecole Normale Superieure ; ’ of 
Paris. Their life-history is similar to that of Phora hergenstammi Mik. 
Fig. 6. A shell of Helix aspersa with the upper whorl broken, showing the pupae of 
Phora maculata Meigen fixed to the inner side of the shell. 
Phora sp. No. 2. Under this name I described the empty pupae (1911, 
p. 60) of a Phorid found in one specimen of H. nemoralis collected in Bernese 
Oberland, Switzerland. 
Phora sp. the pupae of which were recorded by Schmitz (1917, p. 39) from 
a shell of a species of Pupid mollusc collected near Lisbon. 
Hypocera molluscivora Schmitz, Dorniphora bequaerti Schmitz and Pulici- 
phora spinicollis Schmitz, according to Schmitz (1917), were bred by Bequaert 
with Aphiochaeta xanthina Speiser from different Molluscs (probably bivalves) 
from Africa. 
