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generally somewhat strongly brownish tinged; costal segment 3 

 shorter than 5; subcostal vein with bristles; a long costal spine. 



Female. Frons nearly as broad as the eye. The split in sixth 

 abdominal segment apical and ventral, oval above but triangularly 

 pointed below and thus nearly triangular; it has strong marginal 

 bristles at the sides, interrupted above and being smaller on the 

 ventral side. The female will be known especially by the dark wings. 



Length 5 — 6 mm (after Bottcher 5 — 10 mm). 



S. offuscata seems to be rare in Denmark, I possess only 7 spec- 

 imens, three males and four females; Ermelimd, Dyrehaven, Lyngby 

 Mose (the author); the dates are ^Vs — V?- 



Geographical distribution: — Europe down into Italy; towards 

 the north to southern Sweden (Ringdahl). 



Remarks: The species has sometimes a red hypopygium and 

 forceps and penis a little differing: var. haemorrhoides Bottch., but 

 this has not occurred with us. 



24. S. frenata Pand. 



1896. Pand. Eev. Entom. XV, 182, 13. — 1907. Villen. Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 de Fr. LXXVI, 395. — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 481. — 1913. Bottch. 

 Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 352, Fig. 67. — 1917. Kram. Abhandl. Nat. Geseli. 

 Gorlitz, 28, 21, 238. — 1924. Stein, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 197. — S. cruen- 

 iata Schin. p. p. (nec Meig.) 1862. F. A. I, 571. — 1896. Pand. 1. c. XV, 181, 

 12. — 1907. Villen. 1. c. 395. — S. nepos Eond. p. p. 1860. Atti Soc. Ital. Se. 

 Nat. III, 290, 27 et 1862. Dipt. Ital. Prodr. V, 121, 28. — S. vulnerata Kram. 

 {nec Schin.) 1911. 1. c. 27, 33, Tab. II, Fig. 12. 



Male. Frons not half as broad as the eye. Orbits and face 

 yellowish or light brownish pruinose, somewhat dark reflecting; 

 jowls grey; frontal stripe black, Outer vertical bristles slightly 

 individualised. Bristles on cheeks a little strong downwards, in one 

 row. Jowls black-haired, Occiput grey, mainly black-haired, with 

 pale hairs only just centrally and below. Antennæ with third joint 

 only a little longer than second, reaching the lower margin of the 

 eye. Palpi black, thin. Thorax greyish or dark greyish pruinose, 

 with three broad and equal stripes, much broader than the narrow 

 interstices; bristles on thorax rather long; three postsutural dorso- 

 centrals; a pair of præscutellar acrostichals and some very weak 

 præsutural. Scutellum with crossing apical bristles. Abdomen grey 

 or a little yellowish grey pruinose, with black tessellations; third 

 segment with strong bristles. Fourth sternite with short, somewhat 



