242 Tachinidae. 



Sønderborg, Madeskov, in Nørholm Skov near Varde, at Buderup- 

 holm and Skørping and on Bornholm (Stein) ; the dates are '^/g — ^^Uq. 

 The biology of the species does not seem to be known, but two of 

 my specimens are bred from larvæ of Chrysomela sanguinolenta on 

 30/7 (J. G. Nielsen). 



Geographical distribution: — Europe; towards the north to 

 middle Sweden. 



2. M. grisea Fall. 



1810. Fall. Vet. Acad. Handl. XXXI, 269, 15 et 1820. Dipt. Suec. Muse. 

 20, 41 (Tachina). — 1824. Meig. Syst. Beschr. IV, 279, 10 (TacMna). — 1844. 

 Zett. Dipt. Scand. III, 1184, 187 et 1849. VIII, 3251, 187, (Tachina). — 1862. 

 Schin. F. A. I, 531. — 1895. Pand. Eev. Entom. XIV, 326, 10. — 1907. Kat. 

 palåarkt. Dipt. III, 406. — 1924. Stein, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 156, 4. — 

 Tachina egens Meig. 1824. 1. c. IV, 275, 63 et 1838. VII, 229, 2. 



Male. Frons quite narrow above, eyes nearly touching; cheeks 

 medium broad; jowls not much more than one third of the height 

 of the eye. Orbits blackish, cheeks and jowls grey; frontal stripe 

 brownish black. Vibrissæ not ascending. Eyes densely brown-hairy. 

 Orbits with fine black hairs continued on the cheeks to about 

 middle; jowls with black hairs. Occiput grey, all black-haired. An- 

 tennæ black, a little reddish at apex of second joint; third joint a 

 little longer than second; arista thickened just at base, distinctly 

 pubescent. Palpi black. Thorax black, a little shining, it is somewhat 

 greyish pruinose on front part and whitish on humeri and just in 

 front on middle; it has four black stripes, the median narrow; behind 

 the suture the stripes very indistinct. Thorax black-haired ; one præ- 

 and one postsutural acrostichal bristle, or sometimes two of both. 

 Scutellum with three marginal bristles on each side, the apical strong, 

 crossing. The lower sternopleural bristle weak. Abdomen rather 

 elongate and somewhat narrow, all greyish pruinose, a little shifting 

 to brownish grey according to view; it is black-haired, with long 

 discai and marginal bristles, on second segment a pair of marginal, 

 on third a pair of discai and a more or less complete row of marginal 

 and on fourth a row of discai and of marginal bristles. Legs specially 

 long, black. Wings brown tinged, the colour somewhat seaming the 

 veins broadly; veins blackish brown; first posterior cell narrowly 

 open or almost closed, ending at about apex of wing; discai angle 

 rounded; posterior cross-vein strongly sinuous. Squamulæ and 

 balteres yellow. 



