312 Tachinidae. 



F. A. I, 459. — 1891 B. B. Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LVIII, 321 {Parex- 

 orista). — 1896. Pand. Rev. Entom. XV, 22, 31. — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. 

 III, 241. — 1921. Baer, Zeitsclir. f. angew. Ent. VII, 147. — 1924. Stein, Arch. 

 f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 75, 9. — TacUna hicingulata Zett. 1844. 1. c. III, 1133, 31. 



Male. Frons above aboiit two thirds as broad as the eye, some- 

 what protruding; orbits broad, fully twice as broad as frontal stripe; 

 cheeks narrowing downwards. Orbits and clieeks greyish white, or 

 silvery downwards; jowls grey; frontal stripe brownish red, seen 

 from in front whitish pruinose. Slightly individualised outer vertical 

 bristles present. Frontal bristles descending low down, below inser- 

 tion of arista and to middle of the cheeks; two uppermost reclinate. 

 Vibrissæ a little ascending. Orbits and jowls black-haired. Occiput 

 grey with pale yellow hairs and a row of black hairs behind postocular 

 bristles. Eyes with longish, pale hairs. Antennæ greyish black, long, 

 third joint about five times as long as second; arista thickened in 

 basal third, second joint elongated. Palpi yellow, brownish towards 

 base. Thorax black, a little grey pruinose, with four stripes, the 

 median narrow, diverging, abbreviated behind, the lateral broader, 

 interrupted at the suture; scutellum reddish, black just at base. 

 Thorax black-haired; four postsutural dorsocentrals. Scutellum with 

 four marginal bristles on each side, the apical crossing. Four sterno- 

 pleural bristles. Abdomen conical, black and shining, obscurely red 

 at the sides on basal part; third segment whitish grey pruinose with 

 only a narrow hind margin and a middle stripe black, fourth seg- 

 ment black and polished, with only a very narrow, interrupted prui- 

 nose band just on front margin; fifth segment quite black. Abdomen 

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

 third and a row on fourth segment. Legs black; hind tibiæ with an 

 anterodorsal row of in no way dense, somewhat unequal bristles, 

 and one long bristle. Wings a little tinged, brownish yellow at base; 

 veins brown; first posterior cell ending well before apex of wing; 

 discai angle rectangular; apical cross-vein somewhat concave. Squa- 

 mulæ whitish. Halteres yellow, knob brown. 



Female. Similar; frons as broad as the eye or about. Abdomen 

 with broader black hind margin on third segment and with the band 

 on fourth segment as broad as that on third. 



Length 8 — 8,5 mm. 



E. confinis is rare in Denmark, only six specimens, five males 

 and a female are known; the female taken near Sorø many years 

 ago (Stæger), the males from Jutland at Horsens and Laven (H. J. 



