238 Tachinidae. 



joint quite slightly elongated. Thorax nearly quadratic; three post- 

 sutural dorsocentrals ; one or two more or less distinct præsutural 

 and a pair of præscutellar acrostichals. Scutelium with three marginal 

 bristles on each side. Two sternopleural bristles. Above on ptero- 

 pleura a small bimdle of hairs. Abdomen somewhat ovate; excavation 

 on second segment not reaching hind margin; there are marginal 

 bristles, on second segment four. Legs with claws and pulvilli in male 

 elongated. Wings with first posterior cell open, ending a little before 

 apex of wing; discai angle rectangular, with a veinlet; no costal spine. 

 Of the genus two European species are known, one occurring in 

 Denmark. 



1. P. signatus Meig. 



1824. Meig. Syst. Beschr. IV, 303, 111 {Tachina) et 1838. VII, 233, 22 

 {Miltogramma). — 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 502 (Macronychia). — 1889. B. B. 

 Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LVI, 117, Tab. VII, Fig. 145. — 1895. Pand. 

 Rev. Entom. XIV, 298, 19 {Miltogramma). — 1900. Stein, Ent. Nachricht. 

 XXVI, 149. — 1900. Villen. Bull. Soc. Ent. de Fr. 381, 3. — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. 

 Dipt. III, 518. — 1924. Stein, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 227, 2. — Tachina 

 anomala Zett. 1859. Dipt. Scand. XIII, 6074, 11—12. 



Male. Frons narrow, about half as broad as the eye, a little 

 protruding. Orbits broader than frontal stripe, yellow, black above; 

 cheeks yellow, jowls grey; frontal stripe velvet black or brownish 

 black. A number (3 — 4) of upper frontal bristles reclinate, placed 

 somewhat outwards; outwards to the frontal bristles a row of hairs, 

 a number of the upper strong and bristly, indicating orbital bristles; 

 orbits besides with fme hairs, and above on the cheeks some fme 

 sparse hairs. Jowls with black hairs. Occiput grey, with black hairs. 

 Antennæ black, third joint almost not longer than second; arista 

 thickened at base. Palpi black. Thorax black, greyish or bluish grey 

 pruinose, most at the sides, with three black stripes in the whole 

 length, the lateral broadest. Thorax has longish black hairs. Abdomen 

 grey or brownish grey pruinose, the segments each with three large, 

 somewhat triangular, a little shining spots, on second segment nearly 

 confluent. Abdomen black-haired, with marginal bristles, on second 

 and third segment four (or more), on fourth a row and likewise on 

 fifth. Legs black, with rather numerous but not strong bristles. Wings 

 very slightly tinged; veins black; apical cross-vein bending strongly 

 outwards above the angle. Squamulæ yellowish \Nith darker margin. 

 H alteres yellow. 



