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it, and from pygmaea it is distinguished by the normal abdominal 

 tergites ; I have described this female as it is evidently an undescribed 

 species, but how the male shall be distinguished from pijgmaea I 

 cannot say, unless the darkest, clear-winged forms of pijgmaea should 

 prove to belong to the present species. 



A. pygmaeoides is rare; Holte ^Vi2 1920 and ^U 1921 (Th. Mor- 

 tensen) and at Ry in Jutland ^V? 1918 (the author), in all three females; 

 the specimen from ^^/i2 was taken on the window together with pyg- 

 maea^ brought in with a Christmas tree from the wood. 



Geographical distribution: — Hitherto only known from Den- 

 mark. 



135. A. Berndseni Schmitz. 

 1919. Schmitz, Entom. Ber. Nederl. Ent. Ver. V, 118. 



Male. I have not seen the male, but, according to Schmitz's 

 description, it is mainly similar to the female. 



Female. Frons about quadratic, black, a little greyish and some- 

 what shining; inner bristle of lower row below the outer and in about 

 the middle between it and the upper supraantennal; supraantennal 

 bristles only slightly unequal, the lower a little smaller than the 



Fig. 116. Wing of .4. Berndseni $. 



upper; the upper supraantennals in about the same distance from 

 each other as the inner bristles of middle row, the lower more ap- 

 proximate. Antennæ blackish brown, arista short-pubescent. Palpi 

 yellow, of ordinary size, with well developed bristles. Thorax black, 

 slightly shining, with dark brownish pubescence. Mesopleura bare. 

 Abdomen black, a little greyish, dull; the very short hairs almost 

 only visible behind. Legs brown, the front legs the palest, the hind 

 legs the darkest; hind femora somewhat broad, with the hairs below 

 the base longish; bristles on hind tibiæ as in pygmaea^ distinct and 

 not numerous. Wings brownish yellow tinged, veins brown; costa 



