192 Tachinidae. 



jS. matertera Eond. p. p. 1860. Atti Soc. Ital. Se. Nat. III, 387, 9 et 1862. Dipt. 

 Ital. Prodr. V, 108, 9. — S. neglecta Kram. 1905. Zeitschr. Hymn. Dipt. V, 

 14, Fig. V et 1906. VI, 216. 



Male. Frons fully half as broad as the eye. Orbits and face 

 yellowish pruinose, somewhat blackish brown reflecting; jowls grey; 

 frontal stripe black, No outer vertical bristles. Bristles on cheeks 

 weak, in one row. Jowls black-haired. Occiput grey, with black hairs 

 and yellowish hairs on middle and below. Antennæ with third joint 



Fig. 55. 

 Penis from 

 Fig. 64. i*). scoparia. the end. 



about twice as long as second, reaching fully to the lower end of 

 the eye. Palpi black. Thorax bluish grey pruinose, the lateral stripes 

 a little broader than the median; four postsutural dorsocentrals, the 

 two anterior somewhat weaker than the posterior; a pair of præ- 

 scutellar acrostichals; a præsutural intraalar bristle present or want- 

 ing. Scutellum with crossing apical and generally three marginal 

 bristles on eacli side. Abdomen greyish pruinose, brownish black tessel- 

 lated; third segment without bristles. All sternites with erect hairs. 

 Fifth sternite without brush, the lamellæ with crowded strong marginal 

 bristles on basal half, hairy on apical half. Præhypopygial segment 

 greyish pruinose with distinctly stronger marginal bristles. Hypo- 

 pygium black, densely haired; upper forceps cleft in nearly apical 

 half, carinate along the middle above; the arms in profile attenuated, 

 ventrally curved and pointed; lower forceps a little elongated. An- 

 terior claspers longer than posterior, flattened and excised at end; 

 posterior claspers hook-like curved at apex and pointed. Penis with 

 the end bent rectangularly forwards as a pair of distal apophyses, 

 they are furcate at apex and divided in a larger apical and a smaller 



