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it also occurs in North America and is likewise recorded from Australia. 

 By this wide distribution it must be remembered that the species 

 is no doubt often wrongly determined. 



Remarks: According to Wood, 1. c. 243, Collin has examined 

 pulicaria in Fallen's coUection and found it rather agreeing with the 

 present species, while pulicaria of Meigen is probably subpleuralis 

 Wood, as said under that species; Brues, however, cites pulicaria 

 Meig. under the present species, he has perhaps not been aware of 

 Wood's remarks. I have seen the specimens in Zetterstedt's collection, 

 and I am of the same opinion as Becker, that they are identical with 

 the present species, Becker is of opinion that Zetterstedt's pumila 

 is likewise pulicaria'^ I have examined Zetterstedt's specimens; there 

 are two specimens in the collection to Ins. Lapp., but both are so 

 mouldy that nothing can be said of them; further there are three 

 specimens in the collection to Dipt. Scand., the two of them are very 

 bad, but they are not identical with pulicaria^ the third is another 

 species and identical with atripes Brues i; it will thus be impossible 

 to say what pumila Zett. is. Zetterstedt mentions both pulicaria 

 and pumila from Denmark, sent by Stæger; in Stæger's collection 

 there stands under pulicaria a specimen, labelled "Zett. det.", it is a 

 male of Woodi Lundbk. Of pumila there is only one specimen, a male, 

 likewise labelled "Zett. det.", it is so mouldy that it cannot be deter- 

 mined, but it is in no way pulicaria (I think it is alticolella Wood.). 



126. A. longifurca Lundbk. 

 1921. Lundbk. Vidensk. Meddel, fra Dansk naturh. Foren. 72, 141, 14. 



Male. Unknown. 



Female. Frons broader than high, black, very slightly greyish 

 and dullish; inner bristle of lower row in about the same height as 

 the outer and nearer to it than to the upper supraantennal ; supra- 

 antennal bristles about equal, the lower only slightly weaker than the 

 upper; the upper supraantennals more approximate than the inner 

 bristles of middle row, the lower a little more approximate. Antennæ 



^ It is not without interest to find atripeshere, for Schmitz (Tijdschr. v. Entom. 

 LXIV, 1921, 8) has found that a type-specimen of pumila from Meigen in 

 Winnertz's collection was atripes, and thinks it possible that pumila Meig. 

 might be atripes Brues and not pusilla Meig. (= clavipes Wood) as Becker 

 has stated. — Though Zetterstedt has noi pumila in Ins. Lapp., there were, 

 as said, two specimens such determined in the collection to this work. 



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