140 Tachinidae. 



Orbits black above, greyish pruinose downwards and on cheeks^ 

 shifting to black; frontal stripe black; jowls black and shining. Orbits 

 with fine hairs, cheeks bare, jowls black-haired. Occiput blue, shining, 

 with all black hairs. Antennæ black, third joint aboiit twice as long 

 as second. Palpi yellow. Thorax blue, shining, densely black-haired. 

 Abdomen blue, sometimes greenish, shining; it is black-haired, with 

 weak bristles at margin of fourth and apically on fifth segment. 

 Legs black; claws and pulvilli strong. Wings hyaline or nearly; 

 veins black; first posterior cell open, ending somewhat before apex 

 of wing; discai angle about rectangular or a little obtuse. Squamulæ 

 blackish or blackish brown. Halteres brownish. 



Female. Quite similar; frons broad, broader than the eye. 



Length 7,5 — 11 mm. 



Ph. terrae-novae is common in Denmark; at Copenhagen, Frede- 

 riksberg Have, Amager, Ordrup Mose, Egebæks Vang, Holte, Geel 

 Skov, Grib Skov; in Jutland at Hattenæs near Silkeborg and Skør- 

 ping, and on Bornholm at Rønne; my dates are ^^/^ — ^/g; it is thus 

 present during the whole season, and it is often seen very early as 

 the date ^^/i shows; on this date it was taken on snow by a tempera- 

 ture of 2,5 C. I have taken it in copula on ^Z,. 



Geographical distribution: — Widely distributed; all Europe,^ 

 towards the north on Iceland and in Greenland to at least 70° L. N. 

 Also occurring in North America, and originally described from New 

 Foundland. 



Remarks: Engel says 1. c. that both sexes have two pairs of 

 vertical bristles, but this is not correct, the male has only the inner 

 verticals. 



20. Lucilia R. D. 



Species of medium size, bright metallic green or blue or more 

 golden to coppery, quite without or with very slight pruinosity. 

 Head only slightly broader than thorax, flat behind, considerably 

 higher than long. Frons in male more or less narrow, from quite 

 narrow with touching orbits to half as broad as the eye, in female 

 from three fourths of to broader than the eye, not protruding. Jowls 

 from one third to about half as broad as the eye is high. In male 

 parallel ocellar and inner vertical bristles, in female the ocellars 

 diverging and also outer verticals and two orbitals present. Postocellar 

 and occipital bristles more or less distinct. Occiput with black or 



