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thickened; bristles strong; middle femora with a comb of short bristles 

 on posteroventral side at apex. Wings brown with brown veins which 

 are brown seamed; first posterior cell long-petiolate; anal vein 

 reaching near to margin. Squamulæ whitish. Halteres brown. 



Female. I have not seen the female. 



Length 6,5 mm. 



S. umbratica is very rare in Denmark, we have only one specimen, 

 a male, without particular locality. 



Geographical distribution: — Europe; towards the north to 

 middle Sweden. 



44. Bf elanopliora Meig. 



Small black species with blackish wings. Head a little broader 

 than thorax, nearly flat behind and slightly puffed out below, some- 

 what liigher than long. Frons broad and of about equal breadth in 

 both sexes, only little protruding and somewhat rounded. Jowls 

 more than half as broad as the eye is high. In both sexes small ocellar, 

 larger inner and outer vertical, and a number of orbital bristles. 

 Postocellar and occipital bristles distinct. Behind postocular bristles 

 black hairs. Frontal bristles reaching fully to insertion of antennæ, 

 above a reclinate and an outwards directed bristle in both sexes. 

 Cheeks with fme hairs along the inner margin. Vibrissæ somewhat 

 ascending. Eyes bare. Epistoma a little retreating and somewhat 

 reflected in the lower part. Proboscis short; clypeus small, horse-shoe- 

 shaped. Palpi somewhat small, thread-like. Antennæ inserted near 

 lower margin of the eye, short, third joint as long as second, this 

 latter with anterior apical angle somewhat produced; arista plumose, 

 in female short-haired. Thorax rectangular; three postsutural dorso- 

 centrals, but no distinct acrostichals, only hairs; two intraalar 

 bristles. Scutellum with two marginal bristles on each side. Two 

 distinct sternopleural bristles and some hairs. Pteropleura with only 

 a single small bristle above. Abdomen elongated and somewhat 

 cylindrical; excavation on second segment small; only marginal 

 bristles, a pair on second segment. Legs moderately bristly; front 

 tarsi with the basal joint slightly compressed, most in female; claws 

 and pulvilli small in both sexes. Wings with first posterior cell long- 

 petiolate, the peduncle ending a little before apex ; discai angle obtuse ; 

 no costal spine. 



The species roralis is known as parasitic on Oniscus asellus, 



