110 Tachinidae. 



9. £vibpissa Rond. 



Species of medium size, black with more or less reddish abdomen. 

 Head considerably broader than thorax, flat or a little concave 

 behind; it is high, considerably higher than long and also higher 

 than broad. Eyes high with the posterior margin ciirved rather 

 strongly forwards a little above middle, and the vertex somewhat 

 sunken, lying lower than the upper margin of the eyes. Frons some- 

 what narrow in male, broader in female, very slightly protruding. 

 Jowls quite narrow. In both sexes ocellar and inner vertical bristles, 

 in female two small, indistinct orbitals high above. No black hairs 

 behind postocular bristles. Frontal bristles reaching to insertion of 

 antennæ, all crossing. Cheeks bare. No vibrissæ above the angular 

 vibrissa. Oral bristles few and very small. Epistoma very slightly 

 retreating, flat. Oral cone and proboscis short. Palpi a little dilated 

 towards apex. Antennæ inserted above middle of the eye; third 

 joint about four times as long as second; arista bare, second joint 

 somewhat elongated. Thorax nearly quadratic, the transverse suture 

 a little behind the middle. Three postsutural dorsocentrals, the 

 anterior weak, and only præscutellar acrostichals. Scutellum with 

 three marginal bristles on each side. One, the posterior, sternopleural 

 bristle. Pteropleura hairy, with a small bundle above. Abdomen 

 elongated oval; excavation on second segment reaching half way 

 to the margin; only small marginal bristles, on second segment a 

 pair. In female sixth segment bent in under venter, ring-like, higher 

 than long, with a large furcate ventral process; last segment forming 

 two large claws. Legs long, especially femora, with few and small 

 bristles; claws and pulvilli long in male. Wings somewhat long, 

 with first posterior cell open, ending quite near apex of wing; angle 

 on discai vein obtuse but the corner sharp; anal vein reaching to 

 near the margin. No costal spine. 



The sole species of the genus occurs also in Denmark. 



1. E. obscuripennis Meig. 



1824. Meig. Syst. Besclir. IV, 219, 1, Tab. XL, Fig. 8 et 1838. VII, 189, 1 

 (Phania). — 1849. Zett. Dipt. Scand. VIII, 3256, 2—3 (Phania). — 1862. 

 Schin. F. A. I, 421 {Phania). — 1889. B. B. Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 

 LVI, 143, Tab. XI, Fig. 290. — 1894. Pand. Eev. Entom. XIII, 65, 1 (Phania). 

 — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 566. — 1924. Stein, Arch. f. Xaturgesch. 

 90, 6, 244. 



