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the base, but stopping a little before the base, the hairs form a char- 

 acteristical, but quite short fringe (fig. 93); bristles on hind tibiæ 

 small. Wings clear or a little 

 tinged, veins brown, the thin 

 veins nearly colourless to pale 

 brownish; costa not reaching to 

 the middle, but somewhat vari- 

 able in length down to 0,44, 1 

 , , 1 , r> , .-. . 1 •!• F>g- 93. A. atripes ^, hind femur 



about egual to 2 + 3; costal ciha . .. ... ^^ rt^ 



^ ' ' irom the outside X 55. 



long; fourth vein a little curved 



in its basal part, for the rest slightly curved, nearly straight. Bal- 

 teres black. 



Female. Similar; costa generally a little longer; hind femora 

 with shorter hairs below which are specially short and dense at the 

 base, but not forming a distinct fringe as in the male. 



Length 1,2 to fuUy 1,5 mm. 



A. atripes is common in Denmark; Ermelund, Dyrehaven, Ør- 

 holm, Holte, Geel Skov, Suserup Skov at Sorø, on Langeland at Lo- 

 hals, in Jutland at Hejls and Skamling south of Kolding, on Fanø, 

 at Jelling, Ry, Hald and Frederikshavn, on Læsø and on Bornholm 

 at Hasle (Th. Mortensen, H. J. Hansen, the author); the dates are 

 ^^/s — ^"/lo. At Ry I took it with the net in grass, and at Holte it was 

 present numerously in a spruce forest on the ground on ^^/g. It was 

 for the first time taken in 1882. 



Geographical distribution: — Denmark, England and, according 

 to specimens sent from Pater Schmitz, Holland and Germany; it 

 further occurs in Sweden, for a specimen was found in Zetterstedt's 

 collection under piimila (see below under pulicaria). 



56. A. hirticrus Schmitz. 

 1918. Schmitz, Entom. Ber. Nederl. Ent. Ver. V, 62. 



Male. Frons considerably broader than high, greyish black, dull ; 

 inner bristle of lower row not or almost not below the outer and much 

 nearer to it than to the upper supraantennal; supraantennal bristles 

 unequal, the lower about half the size og the upper; upper supra- 

 antennals approximate, nearer together than the inner bristles of 

 middle row, the lower still more approximate. Antennæ black, of ordin- 

 ary size, arista distinctly pubescent. Palpi dirty yellowish to blackish 

 brown, of ordinary size and armature. Thorax black, almost not 



