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retreating, slightly reflected in lower part. Oral cone and proboscis 

 of medium length. Palpi a little clubbed. Antennæ inserted at the 

 middle of the eye, third joint about twice as long as second; arista 

 short-pliimose in basal half. Thorax rectangular; three postsutural 

 dorsocentrals; three præsiitural and one or two pairs of præscutellar 

 acrostichals. Scutellum with three marginal bristles on each side, 

 the apical as strong as the others in both sexes; a pair of discai bristles. 

 Four sternopleural bristles, the median iipper small. Pteropleura 

 with hairs and a coiiple of bristles above. Abdomen conical, some- 

 what robust; excavation on second segment reaching the margin 

 in male but not in female; only marginal bristles present and none 

 on second and third segment. Præhypopygial segment as in Agria 

 short above, bending sharply vertically down, with a series of bristles 

 at the bend.Legs with posterior coxæ not hairy behind; middle femora 

 in male with a comb apically, middle tibiæ in this sex without ventral 

 bristle, and hind femora with an anterodorsal and anteroventral 

 row^ of bristles, but no row between them. Claws and pulvilli strongly 

 elongated in male. Wings as in Agria., but with a costal spine. 



Of the genus two species are known, one occurring in Denmark. 



1. A. ruralis Fall. 



1816. Fall. Vet. Acad. Handl. 233 et 1820. Dipt. Suec. Muse. 39, 3 (Musca). 

 — 1826. Meig. Syst. Beschr. V, 17, 2, Tab. XLIII, Fig. 9, S (Sarcophaga) . — 

 1845. Zett. Dipt. Scand. IV, 1301, 22 et 1859. XIII, 6180, 22 {Sarcophaga). — 

 1896. Pand. Eev. Entom. XV, 172, 2 {Sarcophila). — 1900. Villen. BuU. Soc. 

 Ent. de Fr. 363, 2 et 1907. Ann. Soc. Ent. de Fr. LXXVI, 394. — 1907. Kat. 

 palåarkt. Dipt. III, 495 — 1924. Stein, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 205, 3 (Agria). 



Male. Frons about half as broad as the eye, somew^hat protruding. 

 Orbits silvery, somewhat yellowish; cheeks silvery with dark reflec- 

 tions, especially a spot at base of antennæ. Frontal stripe black. 

 Orbits and cheeks with black hairs, longest on cheeks; jowls black- 

 haired. Occiput grey, with all black hairs. Antennæ black, second 

 joint obscurely reddish but wdth upper apical corner bright yellow; 

 arista yellow on middle. Palpi yellow. Thorax brownish grey pruinose 

 with three blackish stripes, the median not produced on scutellum; 

 to each side of the median stripe anterior to the suture a narrow, 

 less distinct stripe. Thorax black-haired. Abdomen grey pruinose, 

 second segment black on middle, the three next segments with a 

 black middle spot and a somewhat triangular spot on each side, 

 the middle spots linear, confluent to a middle stripe, on fifth segment 



