C. T. Brues.
A New Species of Phoridæ from New England.
Psyche 20:90, 1913.

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Psyche [April
A NEW SPECIES OF PHORIDB FROM NEW ENGLAND. BY CHARLES T. BRUES.
Bussey Institution, Harvard University.
In a small collection of New England Phoridz recently given to me for identification by Mr. C. W. Johnson, I have found one large and conspicuous species of the genus Chztoneurophora1 which appears to be undescribed.
Ch~toneurophora aureiventris sp. nov.
Length 5 mm. Head and thorax black, abdomen reddish orange, legs honey yd- low, wings tinged with brown.
Head small, its bristles very large and stout; front less than twice as broad as high, its surface grayish pollinose, with an impressed median line extending from the anterior margin to near the antenna1 tubercle and widening out abo~e into a depression which fills out the space between the median bristles of the sub-ocellar row, and extends above the antennze as a fine, impressed line; supra-antennd pair of bristles reelinate, stout, approximate at base; row above of four nearly equidistant bristles forming an arcuate line curved down medially; sub-ocellar row of four equidistant bristles in a straight line, the lateral ones very near the eye margin. Antennze oval, moderately large, orange-red, with sub- dorsal piceous, pubescent arista as long as the width of the head. Post-ocular cilia very large and stout, strongest just above the middle of the eye; cheeks each with a very long macrochzeta at lower angle and a bunch of several short bristles above next to the insertion of the antenna. Palpi orange-red, of ordinary size, beset below with very short bristles with several long ones in addition near apex. Meso- notum and scutellum black, the humeral angles fuscous; one pair of dorsocentral macroch~tze and four equally stout scutellar bristles; scutelIum transverse, nearly twice as broad as long. Pleurze piceous, lighter below, the propleura fuscous, with a tuft of bristles above the coxa, and elsewhere sparsely clothed with short bristly hairs, several of which at the upper angle are decidedly larger. Mesopleura not bristly. Abdomen reddish orange, the segments subequal, except the sixth which is much elongated.
External genitalia piceous, and first segment infuscated above except near the middle; second segment with a tuft of small black bristles on each side, slightly elongated, but not very strongly so. Sides and venter of abdomen entirely orange-yellow. Pleurze black or fuscous, the amount of black varying from none to nearly the entire pleura. Mesopleura not bristly above. Cox= and
legs brownish yeUow or testaeeous, hind
femora slender, none of the tarsi
thickened.
Fore tibia with a single bristle at the middle on the outer edge; middle tibia with three bristles, one at end of basal fourth on front side, Cne at end of basal third on outer side and one on front side just before tip, ~Malloch, J. R. The Insects of the Diptmoua Family Phoride in the United States National Museum. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 43, p. 422, (1912).



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