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greyish, duU, second and sixth segments elongated; abdomen is 

 distinctly short-haired, the hairs a little longer at the hind margins 

 of the segments and on sixth segment and here long and bristly 

 and forming a circlet at the hind margin. Hypopygium of medium 

 size, brown, shining, the arms of the forceps are symmetricai, forming 

 two long, straight and narrow, stiletto-like appendages; the anal 

 tube is not quite short, flat, thickened towards the end and here with 

 long hairs; the ventral plate is large, ending in a long, brown pro- 

 longation. Legs with the femora blackish, the anterior brown towards 

 the end, tibiæ and tarsi brown, the anterior palest; front tarsi robust; 

 front tibiæ (in my specimens) without dorsal bristle, middle tibiæ 

 with a pair rather near the base, the posterior sometimes wanting, 

 and a smaller anterior bristle at apex, hind tibiæ with an anterior 

 bristle above the middle and a smaller at apex. Wings yellowish 

 tinged; veins brown; costa reaching fuUy to the middle, 1 about 

 equal to 2 + 3; fork longish; costal cilia short; fourth vein somewhat 

 curved at base, seventh very weak and only present with a short 

 basal part. Halteres black. 



Female. I do not know the female, according to the descriptions, 

 it has proboscis large, larger than in the male; abdomen with long 

 hairs towards the end of the venter. 



Length 2,5 — 3 mm. 



T. trinervis is very rare in Denmark, I only know two specimens, 

 both males, from the vicinity of Copenhagen (Schlick). 



Geographical distribution: — Middle Europe down into Styria, 

 it is not known north of Denmark. 



6. T. sublugubris Wood. 



1906. Wood. Ent. Month. Mag. 2, XVII, 192, 265 {Phora). - 1910. Ker- 

 tész, Cat. Dipt. VII, 396 (Phora). — 1914. Brues, BuU. Wisc. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 XII, 99. — 1918. Schmitz, Jaarb. Natuurh. Genootsch. Limburg 1917, 101. 



Male. Frons nearly twice as broad as high, black, dull; bristles 

 somewhat strong, the anterior row convex. Antennæ black, of medium 

 size, arista nude. Palpi black, of ordinary size, with short bristles. 

 Thorax black, not shining, with fme and dense black pubescence and 

 one pair of dorsocentral bristles. Scutellum with four bristles, the 

 anterior much smaller than the posterior. Pleura greyish black. Ab- 

 domen black, a little greyish, dull, second and sixth segments a little 

 elongated; second segment with a very finely granulated, impressed, 

 somewhat semicircular area at the front margin; abdomen is sparingly 



