250 Tachinidae. 



on each side, a small basal and subapical also sometimes present. 

 Two distinct sternopleural bristles. A single bristle above on ptero- 

 pleura. Abdomen conical, in female somewhat flat; excavation on 

 second segment not reaching hind margin; only marginal bristles 

 present, on second segment a pair. Legs not long; claws and pulvilli 

 small, equal in both sexes. Wings with first posterior cell petiolate, 

 peduncle ending a little before apex of wing; angle on discai vein 

 obtuse; a moderate or stronger costal spine. 



As host for a doiibtful Rhinophora is Chrysomela graminis re- 

 corded, otherwise nothing seems to be known about the development. 



A number of European species are recorded, but several of them 

 doubtful or belonging to other genera; one occurs in Denmark. 



1. R. lepida Meig. 



1824. Meig. Syst. Beschr. IV, 289, 8 (Tachina) et 1838. VII, 212, Tab. 

 LXIX, Fig. 40—45 {Leucostoma). — 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 548 {Phyto). — 1900. 

 Stein, Ent. Nachricht. XXVI, 142 {Clista). — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 

 465. — 1924. Stein, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 191. — Leucostoma aenescens 

 Zett. 1844. Dipt. Scand. III, 1234, 3 et 1849. VIII, 3258, 3. — 1862. Schin. 

 F. A. I, 548 (Phyto). — Clista ignota B. B. 1889. Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 

 LVI, 136 et 169, Tab. X, Fig. 262. — Phyto tessellata Pand. 1896. Eev. Entom. 

 XV, 137, 12. — 1900. Villen. Bull. Soc. Ent. de Fr. 402, 16 et 1907. Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. de Fr. LXXVI, 393. 



Male. Frons rather narrow, about half as broad as the eye or 

 still narrower, slightly protruding. Orbits and cheeks greyish silvery 

 shifting to black; jowls blackish; frontal stripe velvet black. Orbits 

 nearly bare, cheeks with some fine hairs, jowls with a row of hairs 

 below. Occiput greyish black, with black hairs. Antennæ black, 

 third joint quite slightly longer than second; arista thickened at base. 

 Palpi blackish. Thorax æneous black, somewhat shining, greyish 

 pruinose at humeri, black-haired. Sternopleura with some more or 

 less bristly hairs besides the two bristles. Abdomen æneous black, 

 shining, third and fourth segment with a greyish silvery pruinose 

 front band, interrupted in the middle. Abdomen black-haired, with 

 somewhat long marginal bristles, a pair on second and third segment 

 and a row on fourth and fifth. Fifth sternite excised beyond middle. 

 Upper forceps thin, style-shaped, cleft in nearly the whole length; 

 arms of lower forceps a little broader, triangularly attenuated. Legs 

 black. Wings more or less blackish or brownish tinged, most towards 

 anterior margin, sometimes slightly; veins blackish, first posterior 



