214 Orthorrhaplia brachycera. 



Geographical distribution: — Northern and middle Europe down 

 into Gorsica, and on Madeira; it seems to have its northern limit in 

 Denmark (see below), and it occurs in England, Strobl mentions 

 (Mittheil. Ver. Steierm. 1892, 143) that he has taken it at a height of 

 4000 feet. 



Remarks: Zetterstedt describes 1. c. the male from one Danish 

 specimen, which he had got from Stæger; in connection with this he 

 describes a female, about which he says: "cum mare descripto in 

 Amager deprehensa, & ut femina hujus a Nobil. Stæger dubitanter 

 missa, parum a C.viriduli femina differre videtur." Of Stæger's specimens 

 we have four in our coUection labelled as femoratus, one male and 

 three females, but the females were all neglectus, and the female of 

 femoratus was thus not known to Zetterstedt. Zetterstedt continues 

 that he had found similar females in Scania, but as these no doubt 

 also belong to neglectus, the species femoratus is probably not known 

 north of Denmark; to be sure Wahigreen records it (Entom. Tidskr. 

 Årg. 33, 1912, 33, 4), but as he puts a querry after it, I think he is 

 not sure. 



4. C. pulchellus Kow. 



1874. Kow. Verhandl. zool. bot. Gesell. Wien, XXIV, 461,3, Taf. XIII, 

 Fig. 15. — 1903. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. II, 319. — ? Chrysotus taeniomerus 

 Zett. 1843. Dipt. Scand. II, 486, 6, p.p. var. b. 



Male. Vertex and frons green. Epistoma greenish, very slightly 

 pruinose, narrow downwards, but distinctly observable. Palpi small, 

 yellowish. Occiput greenish, grey pruinose ; postocular bristles black 



Fig. 68. Antenna of C. -pulchellus d", from the outside. X 125. 



above, yellow below. Antennæ black, first joint somewhat thin, third 

 joint large, somewhat triangular with the upper margin convex, and 

 a little pointed, about as broad as long below. Thorax golden green, 

 with the posterior part and the scutelkim bluish green, slightly pruinose? 

 shining. Pleura greenish, greyish pruinose; propleura with a pair of 

 pale prothoracic bristles. Abdomen green, clothed with short, black 



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