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Remarks: I have followed a commiinication from Dr. Villeneuve 

 and put dira as synonym to stictica; this latter seems to be the 

 varieties with relatively dark to quite black legs; probably also hila- 

 rella Zett, is identical with the present species. 



34. Paragusia Schin. 



Small whitish pruinose species ^vith black spots. The genus is 

 very nearly related to Hilarella, and conform with it in most char- 

 acters. Head a little concave behind; frons broad, equal or about 

 in both sexes, slightly declining, but more protruding than in Hila- 

 rella^ and the head as long as high. Jowls narrow. Occiput with a 

 row of black hairs behind postocular bristles. Frontal bristles reaching 

 to lunula, nearly all reclinate. Epistoma much retreating, the head 

 rather triangular in profile. Antennæ with third joint about thrice as 

 long as second. Thorax with a pair of or some irregular præsutural 

 acrostichals and a pair of præscutellar. Wings as in Hilarella, but 

 posterior cross-vein in the middle between medial cross-vein and 

 angle or about. 



Of the genus only one species is known, also occurring in Den- 

 mark. 



1. P. elegantula Zett. 



1844. Zett. Dipt. Scand. III, 1024, 13 {Tachina). — 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 

 509 {Afodacm). — 1887. Sinten. Wien. Ent. Zeitg. VI, 259. — 1889. B. B. 

 Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien. LVI, 113, Tab. VI, Fig. 132. — 1895. Pand. Rev. 

 Entom. XIV, 289 {Miltogramma). — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 514. — 

 1924. Stein, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 224. — P. Frivalclzkii Schin. 1862. 

 F. A. I., 500. — 1895. Pand. 1. c. XIV, 310. 



Male. Frons fully as broad as the eye, with parallel margins, 

 strongly protruding; orbits broad, broadest anteriorly, and thus the 

 frontal stripe here narrow, broadening backwards. Frons and face 

 quite silver-grey, also the frontal stripe, and this latter therefore slightly 

 marked ; cheeks dark in certain views. Frontal bristles few in number. 

 Orbits bare, cheeks fmely and somewhat sparingly hairy; jowls with 

 black hairs, Occiput grey, only hairy along the margin, but here 

 with black hairs behind the postocular bristles. Antennæ black, 

 third joint about thrice as long as second; arista thickened in less 

 than basal half. Palpi yellowish or brownish. Thorax bluish white 



