116 Orthorrhapha brachycera. 



Female. Frons broad, grey, with a longitudinal impression. The 

 bristles on thorax shorter than in the male; abdomen is quite short- 

 haired, and the hairs are dark to blackish, except at the base. Posterior 

 legs somewhat compressed; middle femora pennate above, and on 

 the apical half below, hind femora pennate above, and about in the 

 apical two thirds below; hind tibiæ somewhat ciliated on both sides, 

 the hairs above slightly broadened and those below at the base some- 

 what scaly; the scaly hairs on the whole somewhat narrow. Wings 

 somewhat brownish tinged; veins darker than in the male. 



Length 3—4,2 mm. 



E. vernalis is a common species in Denmark; Lersøen, Utterslev 

 Mose, Amager, Charlottenlund, Ordrup Mose, Nyraad at Vordingborg ; 

 on Funen at Veflinge; on Langeland at Lohals and in Jutland at 

 Sæby and Frederikshavn ; fmally on Bornholm at Allinge. It is a 

 somewhat early occurring species, my dates are '^Vr. to the first half 

 of July. It occurs in bushes e. g. in plantations of Salix, and fre- 

 quently on fieids in the grass. 



Geographical distribution: — Europe down into Italy; towards 

 the north to northern Scandinavia, and in Finland. 



17. E. lamellicornis Beck. 



1887. Beck. Berl. ent. Zeitschr. XXXI, 124, 74. - 1893. Strobl, Mitth. 

 Ver. Steierm. 1892, 77. — 1903. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. Il, 238. 



Male. Eyes contiguous; epistoma dark grey. Occiput grey with 

 blackish brown, downwards yellowish hairs. Labrum not twice as 

 long as the head is high; palpi blackish with some hairs at the apex. 

 Antennæ about as long as the head, black. Thorax grey, practically 

 unstriped. The dorsocentral and acrostichal bristles somewhat long, 

 black, biserial, the former longer and uniserial behind. Further a 

 humeral bristle, a posthumeral, about three notopleural, a supraalar 

 and a postalar bristle, all black, but they are not very conspicuous 

 among the somewhat long hairs on the sides of the disc and in the 

 præsutural depression. Scutellum with two black marginal bristles. 

 Pleura grey, metapleura with somewhat weak, pale brownish or 

 yellowish hairs. Abdomen grey, clothed with somewhat longish, 

 whitish or yellowish hairs; venter similarly coloured and haired. 

 Exterior genitalia not large, the lower lamellæ directed more or less 

 upwards, short and somewhat broad, between their upper margins 

 project the upper lamellæ which are claw-shaped, curved downwards 

 and longer than the lower lamellæ; the eighth dorsal segment is not 

 impressed, and it is not black and shining as in vernalis, but grey; 

 at each side of it there is a more or less distinct tubercle or hook. 



