334 Tachinidae. 



The genus contains about 10 European species; it is divided 

 into four subgenera; two species are found in Denmark, representing 

 the subgenus Phryxe s. str. (vulgaris) and Blepharidopsis B, B. 

 (nemea); (the two other subgenera have four sternopleural bristles). 



Table of Species. 



1. Vibrissæ ascending, generally to or to near middle; frontal 



bristles descending to or below the middle of the cheeks. . 1. vulgans. 



— Vibrissæ not ascending; frontal bristles descending only to 



insertion of arista 2. nemea. 



1. Ph. vulgaris Fall. 



1810. Fall. Vet. Acad. Handl. XXXL 275 et 1820. Dipt. Suec. Muse. 

 30, 62 {Tachina). — 1824. Meig. Syst. Beschr. IV, 264 {Tackina) et 1838. VII, 

 255, 15 (Exorista). — 1838. Zett. Ins. Lapp. 644, 41 et 1844. Dipt. Scand. III, 

 1139, 137 et 1859. XIII, 6123, 137 (Tachina). — 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 458 

 (Exorista). — 1889. B. B. Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LVI, 88, Tab. II, 

 Fig. 18 et 1891. LVIII, 338 (BlepJiaridea). — 1895. Pand. Rev. Entom. XIV, 

 336, 5 (Zenillia) et 1896. XV, 21, 30 (Exorista). — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. 

 III, 269. — 1921. Baer, Zeitschr. f. angew. Ent. VII, 150. — 1924. Stein, 

 Arch. f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 91, 3. — Pseudophorocera setigera B. B. 1889. 1. c. 

 LVI, 165, Tab. II, Fig. 38 et 1893. LX, 118. — 1907. Villen. Wien. Ent. Zeitg. 

 XXVI, 254, 40. — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 262. 



Male. Frons above broader than the eye. Orbits grey, blackish 

 above, cheeks more silvery; jowls grey; frontal stripe velvet reddish 

 brown, seen from in front grey pruinose. Frontal bristles descending 

 to middle of cheeks or below. Vibrissæ ascending to near or to the 

 middle of the height. Orbits and jowls with long black hairs. Occiput 

 grey, with whitish hairs, partly black below, and with a row of black 

 hairs behind postocular bristles. Eyes with longish pale hairs. Antennæ 

 black, third joint about four times as long as second; arista thickened 

 in basal half. Palpi black or blackish. Thorax bluish black, somewhat 

 shining, greyish pruinose, with four black stripes, the median ab- 

 breviated behind the suture; scutellum more or less reddish brown. 

 Thorax black-haired ; apical scutellar bristles generally small, directed 

 upwards, crossing. Abdomen black and shining, sometimes slightly 

 reddish at the sides, the three last segments with a whitish pruinose 

 front band, shifting with dark according to view, hind margins and 

 a more or less distinct middle line black. Abdomen with somewhat 

 strong black hairs; on second segment a pair of marginal bristles, 

 on third a pair of discai and marginal and on fourth a pair of discai 

 and a row of marginal bristles. Legs black. Wings a little tinged; 



