128 Tachinidae. 



fully as broad as in female, only a little protruding. Jowls one third 

 of the height of the eye or fully. In both sexes small and indistinct 

 ocellar, large inner but no outer vertical bristles and one orbital 

 bristle. Very small postocellar bristles. No black liairs behind post- 

 ocular bristles. Frontal bristles only reaching to the insertion of 

 antennæ, the uppermost directed outwards in both sexes. Cheeks 

 and jowls bare. Vibrissæ small, a little ascending, large vibrissa 

 strong, Epistoma high, carinate, very slightly retreating, a little 

 reflected below. Proboscis somewhat short with rather large labella. 

 Palpi thread-like, quite slightly dilated outwards. Antennæ inserted 

 high above the middle of the eye, third joint about four times as long 

 as second, in male dilated and triangular and somewhat porrect, 

 in female only a little dilated; arista bare, with second joint elongated. 

 Thorax rectangular. Three postsutural dorsocentrals and about 

 three præsutural and likewise three postsutural, somewhat irregular 

 acrostichals; two posthumeral and two intraalar bristles. Scutellum 

 with three marginal bristles on each side, the lateral small, the apical 

 Crossing. Only one small sternopleural bristle. Pteropleura with only 

 small hairs above. Abdomen elongate, narrow in basal part, widening 

 apically; excavation at base (on first segment) small; there are only 

 marginal bristles, on second segment a pair; the bristles small. Male 

 genitalia forming a knob at apex; fifth sternite forming a large, 

 open arch or furca with bristles at its base; in the opening at the 

 tase a second smaller furca (sixth sternite ?). In female the two 

 last segments curved in under venter, the last ending w^th two styli- 

 form claws. Legs long, and especially anterior tarsi long; bristles 

 not numerous nor strong; the ventral bristle on middle tibiæ present 

 in both sexes; claws and pulvilli in male slightly longer than in 

 female. Wings with first posterior cell open, ending slightly before 

 -apex of wing; discai angle rounded. No costal spine. 



To the genus only one species belongs, also occurring in Denmark. 



1. L. fasciata Meig. 



1824. Meig. Syst. Beschr. IV. 216, 1, Tab. XL, Fig. 1—4. — 1844. Zett. 

 Dipt. Scand. III, 1215, 1 et 1855. XII, 4704, nota. — 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 

 419. — 1889. B. B. Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LVI, 139, Tab. X, Fig. 275. 



— 1894. Pand. Rev. Entom. XIII, 74. — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 428. 



— 1924. Stein, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 173. 



Male. Frons broad, broader than the eye, slightly protruding. 

 Head silvery, orbits blackish above; frontal stripe velvet black 



