90 Tachinidae. 



in hovis^ with the same shining, bare stripes, but behind the suture 

 they are less broad; the pile on disc all yellow only with some black 

 hairs intermingled ; on the sides above the wing-root the hairs are 

 black. Scutellum generally a little more incised in apex so that the 

 protuberances are a little more pronounced. Abdomen as in hovis. 

 Legs with femora black, tibiæ yellow to brownish yellow, hind tibiæ 

 palest; hind metatarsus not thrice as long as second joint. The legs 

 more pale-haired than in hovis^ front femora with yellow hairs behind, 

 brownish below; posterior femora yellow-haired below, and on post- 

 erior tibiæ all the long hairs yellow; posterior coxæ and trochanters 

 mainly yellow-haired. Wings and squamulæ as in bovis, only the 

 wings a little less tinged. H alteres pale brownish or paler. 



Female. I have not seen the female. 



Length about 12 mm. 



H. lineatum seems to be rare in Denmark, we possess only three 

 specimens of the imago, two from earlier time, one of them from 

 Vejle; one specimen has been bred, the larva was taken on ^^s? it 

 pupated on ^^5 and the fly emerged on ^^/g (Stub). But besides we 

 have some larvæ. Stub mentions (Entom. Meddel. 10, 1913, 116) 

 that he has taken several larvæ, and that larvæ have been taken 

 in German slaughter houses on cattle imported from Denmark. 



Geographical distribution : — All Europe and in North America. 



Remarks: H.diana Br. is by Henriksen (Insekterne og vore 

 Sygdomme. København 1919, 27) mentioned as occurring in Den- 

 mark, but, as far as I have been informed, this is due to a mistake. 



IV. Phasiinae. 



4. AllopliOFa R. D. 



Species of small to rather large size, often of broad shape with 

 broad, often spotted wings, of black colour with more or less pruinosity, 

 or with abdomen more or less red. Head broader than thorax, often 

 very broad to twice as broad as high and with a broad face; it is a 

 httle excavated behind. Frons narrow in both sexes and in female 

 still narrower than in male, slightly or at most somewhat protruding; 

 in female the eye-facets in the upper part of the eye generally more 

 distinctly enlarged than in male. Jowls narrow or broad, but in the 

 latter case rather horizontal. Ocellar and vertical bristles either quite 

 wanting, or small ocellar and inner vertical bristles present, the latter 



