302 Orthorrhapha brachycera. 



sund, Rørvig, Sorø, and Nyraad near Vordingborg; on Langeland at 

 Lohals; on Funen at Veflinge and Hoffmansgave; in Jutland in Højen- 

 bæk Dal at Vejle, Nebsager near Horsens, at Sminge and Laven near 

 Silkeborg, Hald near Viborg, Søndervig, Holstebro, Struer, Gjerlev 

 near Randers Fjord, Aalborg, Thisted and Frederikshavn. My dates 

 are ^^lo — V9. It occurs especially in low herbage on fields, but also 

 on bushes in the outskirts of woods. 



Geographical distribution : — Europe down into Italy, and also 

 down into North Africa; towards the north to northern Sweden, but 

 here rare; and in Finland. 



l± T. varia Walk. 



185L Walk. Ins. Brit. I, 126,14 {Platy palpus). — 1862. Schin. F. A. 

 I, 88 {Platypalpns). — 1887. Becker, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. XXXI, 134, 102. 

 — 1903. Kat. palaarkt. Dipt. II, 288. 



Of this species I know only the female. Frons and vertex grev, 

 slightly yellowish; epistoma whitish; palpi of medium size, yellow. 

 Occiput grey, slightly yellowish, with yellow bristles above, white 

 hairs below. Antennæ black, the basal joints yellow, the third joint 

 considerably shorter than the arista. Thorax yellowish pruinose; all 

 bristles yellow; there are three distinct notopleural bristles. Scutellum 

 with two yellow marginal bristles, and a smaller hair on each side. 

 Pleura grey pruinose; the black, polished spot above the middle coxæ 

 small. Abdomen yellow, somewhat shining, the middle part of the 

 dorsum somewhat brownish; abdomen is clothed with short, yellow 

 hairs. Venter yellow. Ovipositor black. Legs yellow; tarsi distinctly 

 but narrowly blackish annulated. Front femora not much, middle 

 femora considerably thickened. The legs are yellow haired, the front 

 and hind tibiæ have some distinct, brownish bristles on the dorsal 

 side. Wings yellowish tinged. Veins yellow, cubital and discai vein 

 somewhat convergent. Halteres whitish yellow. 



Length about 3,5 mm. 



Remarks: The species is generally described with two rows of 

 brown spots on abdomen, but the spots often more or less confluent. 



T. varia is very rare in Denmark, only one specimen, a female, 

 has been taken at Charlottenlund on -^Vt 1905 (the author). 



Geographical distribution : — Northern and middle Europe down 

 into Switzerland; it has its northern limit in Denmark and England; 

 it is generally a rare species, but Becker 1. c. records it as common 

 at St. Moritz on bushes of Salix and Alnus, but onlv females. 



