330 Tachinidae. 



nearly flat, and only a little puffed out below; it is much higher than 

 long. Frons broad in both sexes and of nearly the same breadth, 

 only little protruding; jowls narrow. In both sexes ocellar and inner 

 and outer vertical bristles; in female also two orbitals. Behind post- 

 ocular bristles no black hairs. Frontal bristles descending to insertion 

 of arista, about three uppermost reclinate. Cheeks bare. Vibrissæ 

 somewhat ascending, to about one third of the height. Eyes hairy. 

 Epistoma somewhat retreating, a little reflected below. Proboscis 

 not long. Palpi thread-like, a little dilated outwards. Antennæ in- 

 serted at middle of the eye, third joint about twice as long as second; 

 arista with second joint short. Thorax quadratic; three postsutural 

 dorsocentrals, and three præ- and three postsutural acrostichals; 

 a præsutural intraalar bristle. Scutellum with four marginal bristles 

 on each side. Three sternopleural bristles. Abdomen elongated ovate; 

 excavation on second segment reaching hind margin; there are discai 

 and marginal bristles, on second segment a pair of marginal; fifth 

 segment with bristles all over. Genitalia quite hidden. Legs a little 

 robust; hind coxæ behind with a bristle above; anterodorsal bristles 

 on hind tibiæ unequal, and a long bristle on the middle and at apex; 

 claws and pulvilli in male of moderate length. Wings with first 

 posterior cell closed at the margin, ending considerably before apex of 

 wing; discai angle rectangular; a moderate costal spine present. 



T. luguhris is recorded as bred from Coscinia cribrum and Sco- 

 diona conspersaria (non Danish). 



Four European species are recorded, one occurs in Denmark. 



1. T. lugubris Meig. 



1824. Meig. Syst. Beschr. IV, 370, 227 {Tachina) et 1838. VII, 264, 4. — 

 1889. B. B. Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LVI, 88, Tab. I, Fig. 17. — 1907. 

 Villen. Wien. Ent. Zeitg. XXVI, 255, 45. — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 

 260. — 1924. Stein, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 85. — Bonannia monticola Rond. 

 1861. Dipt. Ital. Prodr. IV, 119. — 1895. Pand. Rev. Entom. XIV, 315, 1. — 

 1900. Villen. Bull. Soc. Ent. de Fr., 402 et 1907. Ann. Soc. Ent. de Fr. LXXVI, 

 383. — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 427. 



Male. Frons about as broad as the eye. Cheeks narrow. Head 

 greyish silvery, jowls reddish above; frontal stripe velvet blackish 

 brown. Eyes brownish-hairy. Orbits and jowls black-haired. Occiput 

 blackish grey, with whitish hairs and no black hairs behind postocular 

 bristles. Antennæ black; arista thickened in nearly basal half. Palpi 

 brownish black. Thorax bluish black, shining, slightly greyish pruinose, 



