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it no doiibt belongs to this species, it is fully conform to a female 

 specimen determined by Dr. Villeneuve. Furtlier the type to sper- 

 nenda Zett. is in our collection, and it fully agrees with Westermanni; 

 Stein has seen the type and came to the same result. 



Geographical distribution: Europe down into France; it is not 

 known north of Denmark. 



9. E. mitis Meig. 



1824. Meig. Syst. Beschr. IV, 335, 165 {Tachina) et 1838. VII, 256, 16. — 

 1862. Schin. F. A.'l, 467. — 1891. B. B. Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LVIII, 

 319 et 325 (Parexorista). — 1900. Villen. Bull. Soc. Ent. de Fr. 158, 3. — 1907. 

 Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 244, p. p. — 1921. Baer, Zeitschr. f. angew. Ent. 

 VII, 147. — 1924. Stein, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 78, 17. — Tachina lineari- 

 cornis Zett. 1844. Dipt. Scand. III, 1118, 115 et 1849. VIII, 3244, 115. — 

 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 244. 



Male. Frons above about two thirds of the breadth of the eye, 

 somewhat protruding; orbits about as broad as frontal stripe; jowls 

 quite narrow. Orbits grey or brownish grey; cheeks silvery; jowls 

 grey; frontal stripe velvet black. Frontal bristles descending to 



about end of second antennal joint, the 

 uppermost reclinate. Vibrissæ a little 

 ascending. Orbits and jowls black- 

 haired, the hairs on orbits reaching 

 a little down on the cheeks below the 

 frontal bristles. Occiput grey, with 

 whitish yellow hairs, and a row of 

 black hairs behind postocular bristles. 

 Eyes pale-hairy. Antennæ black; third 

 joint about thrice as long as second 

 or fully; arista thickened in about 

 basal third, second joint short. Palpi 

 black. Thorax blackish, shining, bluish 

 grey pruinose, more grey at the sides, with five black stripes as in 

 Westermanni^ but the middle stripe less distinct; the three median 

 stripes abbreviated behind, the lateral interrupted at the suture; 

 scutellum blackish. Thorax black-haired; four postsutural dorso- 

 centrals (one of my specimens has only three, the second anterior 

 not developed). Scutellum with four marginal bristles on each side, 

 the apical crossing. Three sternopleural bristles. Abdomen elongated 

 conical, black and shining; third, fourth and fifth segment with a 



Fig. 79. E. mitis ^J , antenna. 



