222 Tachinidae. 



Geographical distribution: — Europa; towards the north to 

 middle Sweden, and in Finland. 



3. M. Germari Meig. 



1824. Meig. Svst. Beschr. IV, 229, 5. — 1844. Zett. Dipt. Scand. III, 

 1203, 2 et 1859. XIII, 6146, 2. — 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 507. — 1895. Pand. 

 Rev. Entom. XIV, 292, 7. — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 505. — 1924. 

 Stein, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 215, 4. 



Male. Head as in the other species; frons fully as broad as the 

 diameter of the eye. Orbits brownish yellow, cheeks and face whitish 

 yellow. Occiput grey, with black hairs. Antennæ with the basal 

 joints yellowish, third joint brownish black; arista thickened in 

 fully basal two thirds. Palpi thin, yellow. Thorax brownish pruinose, 

 greyish at the sides, with five dark stripes as a median is rather distinct; 

 the three median abbreviated behind, the lateral interrupted at the 

 suture. Three postsutural dorsocentrals and two distinct præsutural 

 and a præscutellar pair of acrostichals. Scutellum brown, with three 

 marginal bristles on each side. Abdomen olive brown with w^hitish 

 pruinosity, the colours strongly contrasted, but shifting according 

 to view, and a blackish middle line visible in certain views; abdomen 

 with an indication of reddish at the sides. Second and third segment 

 with a pair of small marginal bristles, fourth segment with a row. 

 Legs black, greyish pruinose, with the usual bristles as in the others, 

 the rows on hind tibiæ, however, less pronounced; front tarsi simple. 

 Wings as in the others. Squamulæ whitish with a slightiy yellowish 

 margin. Halteres yellow with the peduncle darker. 



Female. Similar; frons as broad as in the male. 



Length 5,7 — 8 mm. 



M. Germari is not common in Denmark, I know only six spec- 

 imens; Rørvig, in Jutland at Horsens and Søndervig and on Born- 

 holm at Rønne; the dates are in July and August. The species is no 

 doubt parasitic in nests of Podalirius bimaciilatus (Kramer). 



Geographical distribution: — Europe; towards the north to 

 northern Sweden, and in Finland. 



32. Metopia Meig. 



Medium sized species of black colour with greyish or brownish 

 pruinosity, leaving black sinuous hind margins or rows of triangular 



