C. T. Brues.
A New Species of Aphiochaete (Diptera; Phoridae) from New England.
Psyche 23(6):175-176, 1916.

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19161 Brues-A New Species of Aphiochczta 175 A NEW SPECIES OF APHIOCHBTA (DIPTERA,
PHORIDB) FROM NEW ENGLAND.
BY CHARLES T. BRUES,
Bussey Institution, Harvard University.
Aphiocheta johnsoni sp. nov.
Length, 2.0 mm. Fore tarsi thickened; mesopleura bristly above, without any macroch~ta, two scutellar bristles. Thorax
brownish yellow; head black; abdomen black or piceous, the first three segments narrowly margined with whitish; hypopygium fuscous, its lamella yellow; legs luteous or dull yellow. Front slightly broader than high; ocellar tubercle large, median frontal groove present, proclinate bristles four, the lower pair much more delicate than the upper pair and almost as far apart; inner bristle of lower reclinate row on the anterior margin of the front midway between the upper proclinate one and the eye-margin, outer bristle close to the eye-margin and well above the margin of the front; middle row of four equidistant bristles forming a row that is bent down medially. L4ntenn~ not enlarged, dark fuscous, arista as long as the head height, strongly pubescent. Palpi distinctly enlarged, but less so than in A. projects, with several short bristles below and a pair at tip almost as long as the vertical thickness of the palpus; cheeks each with two strong bristles; postocular cilia strong. Propleura above the coxa with stout bristles and with weaker ones on its upper half. Mesonotum subshining, hairy, with a number of bristles along the sides and posterior edge; scutellum with two bristles and two hairs; mesopleura above with a patch of small bristles of equal size. Abdomen opaque, with scattered bristly hairs, especially conspicuous near the sides of the basal segments and on the disc of the fourth and following segments. Hypopygium and its median lamella also bristly. Legs stout; anterior tarsi thickened, longer than their tibi~; middle tibi~ with very weak cilia; those of hind tibie a trifle stronger, but not conspicuous; hind tibiie with four short transverse rows of minute bristles inwardly at tip; hind tibi~ not ciliate below, with only the usual short hairs. Wings large, distinctly tinged with brownish; costal vein extending to distinctly beyond the middle of the wing; costal cilia short and closely placed; first section of



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