302 Tachinidae. 



Length 6 — 9 mm. 



L. stabulans is common in Denmark; Dyrehaven, Egebæks 

 Vang, Grib Skov, Lave Skov near Helsingør; on Langeland at Lohals; 

 on Lolland at Maribo, in Kældskov, at Bremersvold; on Falster at 

 Nykøbing, and in Jutland at Sønderborg and Kliplev; the dates are 

 «/g — ^^1^. It has not been bred with us, but is known from Mamestra 

 serena, Dianthoecia cucuballi, Gortyna ochracea and Ahraxas grossu- 

 lariata. 



Geographical distribution: — Europe; not known north of 

 Denmark. 



Remarks : The female of this species is very similar to the female 

 of Ceromasia senilis and only distinguished from it with difficulty; 

 I think it may be distinguished by the frons being very broad in 

 senilis, almost double the eye, while in stabulans it is narrower, not 

 reaching one and a half times as broad as the eye; generally also 

 stabulans has a longer arista, thickened at most in basal half. 



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Species of small to medium size, black with grey or yellow 

 pruinosity. Head fully as broad as thorax, flat behind and not puffed 

 out below. Frons broad and a little broader in female than in male, 

 not much protruding. Jowls narrow. Ocellar bristles present or want- 

 ing; inner and outer vertical bristles present, the outer weak in male; 

 in female two orbitals. Distinct postocellar and occipital bristles. 

 Behind postocular bristles a row of black hairs. Frontal bristles 

 descending to end of second antennal joint, two to three uppermost 

 reclinate. Cheeks bare. Vibrissæ not or slightly ascending. Eyes bare 

 or slightly pubescent. Epistoma retreating, not reflected below. 

 Antennæ inserted more or less high above middle of the eye; third 

 joint shorter or longer, from fully two to six times as long as second; 

 arista with second joint a little elongated. Palpi somewhat dilated. 

 Thorax quadratic; four postsutural dorsocentrals, and three præ- 

 and three postsutural acrostichals ; a præsutural intraalar bristle. 

 Scutellum with four marginal bristles on each side, the apical pair 

 smaller or larger, crossing. Three or four sternopleural bristles. Ab- 

 domen ovate or elongated ovate; excavation on second segment 

 reaching hind margin; there are only marginal bristles, or sometimes 

 a pair of discai on fourth segment (aurulenta) ; in one species {vicina) 

 the male has ventrally a patch of short, dense hairs on each side on 



