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posterior cell and down in it, and with the apical part of discai vein 

 and posterior cross-vein broadly dark seamed; veins yellowish to 

 brown; posterior cross-vein placed before the middle between medial 

 cross-vein and angle. Squamulæ yellowish. Halteres brown. 



Female. Quite similar, with the frons of same breadth. 



Length 5,5 — 7,5 mm. 



P. maculata is not rare in Denmark; Copenhagen, Dyrehaven, 

 at Fure Sø; on Funen at Odense; in Jutland at Sønderborg, Hørup- 

 hav, Hald, Silkeborg and Laven, and on Bornholm at Rønne; the 

 dates are ^V?— ^Vs- 



Geographical distribution: — Europe; towards the north to 

 middle Sweden. 



46. Angioneupa B. B. 



Smallish species of black colour, a little greyish pruinose. Head 

 broader tlian thorax, slightly convex behind and a little puffed out 

 below. Frons in male about half as broad as the eye, a little pro- 

 truding. Jowls about one fourth of the height of the eye. In male 

 ocellar, inner vertical and one orbital bristle. Frontal bristles just 

 reaching insertion of antennæ, above an outwards directed bristle. 

 Cheeks bare. Vibrissæ not ascending. Eyes bare. Epistoma a little 

 retreating and a little reflected below. Palpi quite small. Antennæ 

 inserted at the middle of the eye, third joint not twice as long as 

 second; arista pubescent. Thorax a little rectangular; three post- 

 sutural dorsocentrals and a præscutellar pair of acrostichals ; two 

 intraalar bristles. Scutellum with two marginal bristles on each 

 side. Two sternopleural bristles. Above on pteropleura a very small 

 bundle of hairs. Abdomen elongated conical; excavation on second 

 segment only present at base; abdomen with marginal bristles, also 

 present on second segment; smaller discai bristles may be present, 

 especially in female. Legs a little robust, last tarsal joint somewhat 

 long, claws as long as the joint. Wings with first posterior cell open, 

 ending at apex of wing; discai vein bending up with only a slight 

 curve; anal vein reaching the margin; a small costal spine. 



Two European species are known, one hitherto found in Den- 

 mark. 



1. A. cyrtoneurina Zett. 

 1859. Zett. Dipt. Scand. XIII, 6135, 177—78 {Tachina). — 1907. Kat. 

 palåarkt. Dipt. III, 350 {Tachina). — 1924. Villen. Ann. des Se. Nat. 10, VII, 



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