256 Tachinidae. 



present. Two sternopleural bristles, Above on pteropleura a small 

 bundle of liairs. Abdomen elongated conical; excavation on second 

 segment only present at base; only marginal bristles, on second 

 segment a pair. Legs somewhat short and robust, with somewhat 

 thickened femora, especially front femora. Claws and pulvilli in male 

 elongated. Wings with a dark cloud; first posterior cell long-petiolate, 

 ending near apex of wing; discai angle about rectangular; a costal 

 spine present. 



Of the genus 8 European species are recorded, nearly all of 

 Southern occurrence; one occurs in Denmark. 



1. P. maculata Fall. 



1820. Fall. Dipt. Suec. Ehizom. 6, 5 (Ocyptera). — 1824. Meig. Syst. 

 Beschr. IV, 286, 82 {Tachina) et 1838. VII, 210, 4 {Rhinophora). — 1844. Zett. 

 Dipt. Scand. III, 1232, 1 et 1859. XIII, 6163, 1 {Leucostoma). — 1862. Schin. 

 F. A. I, 545. — 1889. B. B. Denksclir. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LVI, 111, Tab. VI, 

 Fig. 123 {Stevenia). — 1896. Pand. Rev. Entom. XV, 137, 11 (Phyto). — 1907. 

 Villen. Ann. Soc. Ent. de Fr. LXXVI, 393. — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 

 454. — 1924. Stein, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 182, 3. — Tachina umbratica 

 Meig. (nec Fall) 1824. I. c. IV, 287, 83 et 1838. VII, 212, 10 {Leucostoma). — 

 1900. Stein, Ent. Nachricht. XXVI, 150 {Leucostmna). — Leucostoma hrevi- 

 cornis Zett. 1. c. III, 1233, 2. 



Male. Frons a little narrower than the eye, not protruding. 

 Orbits greyish, downwards together with the cheeks silvery white; 

 jowls grey; frontal stripe velvet black. Orbits and jowls with black 

 hairs. Occiput dark grey, with black hairs. Antennæ yellowish red 

 to blackish with base of third joint paler; they are short, third joint 

 somewhat longer than second; arista thickened just at base. Palpi 

 yellowish. Thorax black, shining, bluish grey pruinose at humeri 

 and sides, for the rest very slightly pruinose, with three darker, 

 more shining stripes on the middle of the disc; it is black-haired, 

 the hairs mainly present in acrostichal and dorsocentral regions. 

 Abdomen black, shining, third and fourth segment with a narrow, 

 silvery pruinose front band, interrupted in the middle. Abdomen 

 black-haired, with only marginal bristles, a pair on second and a 

 row on third and fourth segment. Fifth sternite not excised. Upper 

 forceps quite thin, needle-shaped, but cleft in apical half; arms of 

 lower forceps a little broader, flat styliform, as long as upper forceps, 

 diverging. Legs black or brownish black, robust, femora, especially 

 front femora, thickened. Wings somewhat brownish tinged, yellowish 

 on basal half and with a brown or blackish cloud above the first 



