246 Tachinidae. 



on apical part of subcostal cell, the base strongly yellow; veins brown. 

 Squamulæ strongly yellow. H alteres dark yellow to brownish yellow, 



Female. Similar; frons fully as broad as the eye; orbits greyish; 

 jowls a little greyish pruinose. Front tarsi robust. 



Length 6,5 mm. 



M. atrata is rare in Denmark, we have only five specimens, one 

 male and four females; North Sealand (Schlick) on Funen at Hoif- 

 mannsgave (H. J. Hansen), and in Jutland at Sønderborg (Wtistnei) 

 and Horsens (O. G. Jensen); the dates are in June. 



Geographical distribution: — Europe, towards the north to 

 middle Sweden. 



41. Minella R. D. 



Species of small or at most medium size and black and shining. 

 The genus is rather related to the foregoing. Head fully as broad as 

 thorax, a little convex behind and a little pufTed out below. Frons 

 in male very narrow, the eyes touching or almost, in female broad; 

 it is only a little protruding. In male the inner eye -margin somewhat 

 S-like curved. Cheeks broad and jowls about one third of the height 

 of the eye. In male no ocellar nor vertical bristles, in female small 

 ocellar, strong inner and outer vertical and two orbital bristles, and 

 the uppermost frontal bristle strong and directed outwards. Frontal 

 bristles reaching to insertion of antennæ. Orbits slightly swoln down- 

 wards, outside the frontal bristles with numerous strong, bristly 

 hairs, less numerous in female; the hairs reaching a little down on 

 the cheeks, these latter otherwise bare. Vibrissæ not or slightly 

 ascending. Eyes distinctly hairy in male, less or only pubescent in 

 female. Epistoma a little retreating and a little reflected below, 

 reaching a little below the large vibrissa. Proboscis somewhat long 

 and slender. Palpi thread-like, a little dilated at apex. Antennæ 

 inserted below middle of the eye, short, third joint at most one and 

 a half times longer than second, this latter with a single long bristle, 

 the other hairs quite short; arista distinctly short-haired. Thorax 

 nearly quadratic; three postsutural dorsocentrals; one præ- and one 

 postsutural pair of acrostichals; two intraalar bristies. Scutellum 

 with three marginal bristles on each side, the apical crossing. Two 

 sternopleural bristles. Pteropleura with only small hairs above. 

 Abdomen ovate or elongated ovate; excavation on second segment 

 not by far reaching hind margin; tliere are numerous discai and 



