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S. falculata is rare in Denmark, I possess three specimens, a 

 male and two females, bred from pupæ in rotten snails (the author). 



Geographical distribution: — Europe down into North Africa, 

 and in North India; also known from North America and Hawaii. 

 In America it has been bred from a Lachnosterna and from rotten meat 

 {Aldrich). 



21. S. pumila Meig. 



1826. Meig. Syst. Beschr. V, 24, 12. -~ 1845. Zett. Dipt. Scand. IV, 1291, 9. 

 — 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 569. — 1896. Pand. Rev. Entom. XV, 198, 46. — 1900. 

 Villen. Bull. Soc. Ent. de Fr. 364, 12 et 1907. Ann. Soc. Ent. de Fr. LXXVI, 

 396. — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 489. -^ 1913. Bottch. Deutsch. Ent. 

 Zeitschr. 116, Fig. 43. — 1924. Stein, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 196, 198. — 

 S. proxima Pand. (nec Rond.) 1896. 1. c. XV, 183, 17. — 1907. Villen. 1. c. 

 LXXVI, 395. — S. latigena Pand. 1896. 1. c. XV, 199, 47. — 1907. Villen. 1. c. 

 LXXVI, 396. — S. vagans S, p. p. Schin. F. A. I, 569. 



Male. Frons narrow, not half as broad as the eye; orbits scarcely 

 half as broad as frontal stripe. Orbits grey above, downwards together 

 with cheeks silvery ; frontal stripe black. Outer vertical bristles present. 

 Bristles on cheeks somewhat long and not weak, in one row; jowls 

 black-haired. Occiput grey, with black hairs above, pale hairs in 

 middle below. Antennæ with third joint a little longer than second, 

 reaching to the lower end of the eye. Palpi black. Thorax brownish 

 pruinose with broad black stripes and narrow 

 interstices; three postsutural dorsocentrals and 

 no or small præscutellar acrostichals. Scutellum 

 without apical bristles. Abdomen greyish 

 yellow or brownish pruinose, blackish tessel- 

 lated; third segment without, sometimes with 

 a pair of small marginal bristles. Fourth ster- 

 nite with short, somewhat decumbent hairs. 

 Fifth sternite with brush. Præhypopygial seg- 

 ment long, black, with a small brown pruinose 

 spot behind, and with long but not strong 



marginal bristles. Hypopygium black (some- ^. ^^ c- -i 

 ^ ji rj& V Fig. 60. S. pumila. 



times brownish to red), somewhat elongated; 



upper forceps cleft in about apical third, on the dorsal side with two 

 longitudinal impressions; in profile the margins nearly parallel until 

 the apical third, from here the dorsal margin declining apically so 

 that an elongated triangular apical part is formed; lower forceps 



