. 300 Phoridae. shining, with brownish pubescence. Mesopleiira with imiform rather distinct bristles which are (at all events generally) placed nearly in a single row. Abdomen black, very slightly greyish, dull; it has short hairs, slightly longer at the hind margins of the segments, at the sides they are a little longer, especially behind and on sixth segment they are somewhat long at the sides. Hypopyginm small, black, it has no strong bristle as in atripes, but has, however, small hairs on each side among which one more conspicuous; below there is a large and broad, triangularly pointed, ye
. 300 Phoridae. shining, with brownish pubescence. Mesopleiira with imiform rather distinct bristles which are (at all events generally) placed nearly in a single row. Abdomen black, very slightly greyish, dull; it has short hairs, slightly longer at the hind margins of the segments, at the sides they are a little longer, especially behind and on sixth segment they are somewhat long at the sides. Hypopyginm small, black, it has no strong bristle as in atripes, but has, however, small hairs on each side among which one more conspicuous; below there is a large and broad, triangularly pointed, yellowish, ventral plate with a curious, protruding point on the left side; anal tube short, yellow with the base blackish or almost quite yellow. Legs blackish or blackish brown, the front legs paler; the hind femora have below the basal half a dense row of short hairs which at the base are very dense, thus here forming a distinct brush (fig. 94); this fringe is longer and more conspicuous than in atripes and much more dense at the base; bristles on hind tibiæ small, but Fig. 94. ^, hind ^ little larger than in atripes. Wings femiir from the outside X 55. clear or nearly so, veins brown, thin veins paler; costa not reaching to the middle, 1 about equal to 2 + 3 or a little longer; costal cilia long; fourth vein somewhat evenly curved in the whole length, only a little more in its first part. Halteres black. Female. Quite similar; costa sometimes a little longer; hind femora with short, at the base a little denser hairs below. Length. 1,5 to about 2 mm. This species is, as also remarked by Schmitz, very nearly related to atripes, and still more similar to it than seen in Schmitz' description, for atripes has similar hairs below hind femora, only shorter and not forming a distinct brush at the base, and hirticrus has also a hair on the sides of hypopygium, but much less strong than in atripes; the males of the two species are, however, rather easily distinguished by th
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