262 Tachinidae. 



Soc. Ent. de Fr. LXXVI, 380. — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 560. — 1924. 

 Stein, Arcli. f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 254. — Tachina limbata Meig. 1824. 1. c. IV, 

 288, 87 et 1838. VII, 212, 6 {Leucostoma). — 1900. Stein, Ent. Nachriclit. 

 XXVI, 142. — Leucostoma nigrisquama Zett. 1859. 1. c. XIII, 6165, 6. — 1862. 

 Schin. F. A. I, 544 {Plesina). — Leucostoma flavicornis Zett. 1859. 1. c. XIII, 

 6166, 7. 



Male. Frons quite narrow above, not at all protruding but 

 quite rounded. Orbits black above, downwards together with cheeks 

 silvery, shifting to black; jowls black; frontal stripe velvet black. 

 Orbits and cheeks bare;" jowls black-haired. Occiput black, with 

 black hairs. Antennæ short, brownish, third joint about as long as 

 second; arista thickened at base. Palpi blackish. Thorax black, 

 shining, black-haired, with three more or less distinct postsutural 

 dorsocentral bristles, but no acrostichals. Abdomen black and shining, 

 black-haired, with small marginal bristles, on second segment none, 

 on third a pair and on fourth and fifth a row. Genitalia relatively 

 large, forming a knob ventrally at apex. Upper forceps small, triangu- 

 lar, ending with a short beak. Legs black, hind tibiæ somewhat thick- 

 ened on middle part. Wings brown towards anterior margin and here 

 with a brown blotch in the apical half, vanishing downwards; the 

 apex milky white, forming a conspicuous spot; veins brown. Squa- 

 mulæ blackish. Halteres black. 



Female. Similar; frons broad and orbits black and shining; the 

 lower part of the head and the antennæ yeliowish or brown. Ab- 

 domen has no bristles, it is compressed ventrally in apical half and 

 the last segments form a peculiar claw-like ovipositor, hidden in a 

 deep groove. 



Length 3 to fully 4 mm. 



C. pygmaea is somewhat rare in Denmark; Lundtofte, Grib 

 Skov, Tisvilde; the dates are '/s — ^^^7- I* occurs especially in sandy 

 fields. According to Nielsen (Vidensk. Medd. fra Dansk naturh. 

 Foren. 67, 1916, 134, nota) it is rather disinclined to flying. 



Geographical distribution: — Europe; towards the north to 

 middle Sweden. 



49. Cinochipa Zett. 



Small, black species. Head broader than thorax, convex behind, 

 slightly puffed out below. Frons broad in both sexes, not protruding. 

 Frontal stripe broad, more than double as broad as the narrow 

 orbits; cheeks very narrow, and also jowls narrow. In both sexes 



