342 Tachinidae. 



Length 5,5 mm. 



Z. pullata is rare in Denmark, we have only two specimens, both 

 males, taken in Dyrehaven (Stæger). The species is known as bred 

 from Phlyctaenodes sticticalis. 



Geographical distribution: — Europe down into Spain and 

 Italy; not known north of Denmark. 



4. Z. roseanae B. B. 



1891. B. B. Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LVIII, 332 (Myxexorista). — 

 1907. Villen. Wien. Ent. Zeitg. XXVI, 249, 10. — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. 

 III, 280. — 1921. Baer, Zeitschr. f. angew. Ent. VII, 153. — Phorocera picipes 

 Rond. 1859. Dipt. Ital. Prodr. III, 163, 1. ~ Z. trizonata Pand. (nec Zett.) 

 p. p. 1895. Rev. Entom. XIV, 337, 6. — 1907. Villen. Ann. Soc. Ent. de Fr. 

 LXXVI, 384. — Pseudoperichaeta ma/jor B. B. 1891. 1. c. LVIII, 338. — 1909. 

 Villen. Wien. Ent. Zeitg. XXVIII, 45. — 1924. Stein, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 

 90, 6, 89. 



Male. Frons above nearly as broad as the eye or a little narrower, 

 slightly protruding. Orbits dark grey; cheeks greyish silvery, dark 

 reflecting; jowls dark grey, narrow and slightly descending; frontal 

 stripe as broad as orbits, velvet black or brownish black. Ocellar 

 bristles small; small outer vertical bristles present. Frontal bristles 

 descending to insertion of arista, two uppermost recHnate. Vibrissæ 

 ascending to middle. Orbits and jowls black-haired. Occiput grey, 

 with whitish hairs in the middle, for the rest black-haired. Antennæ 

 black, third joint about six times as long as second; arista long, 

 thickened in a little more than basal third. Palpi black, a little dilated 

 at apex. Thorax bluish black, somewhat shining, greyish pruinose, 

 especially in front and at the sides; there are five black stripes, the 

 three median abbreviated behind, the lateral a little broader, inter- 

 rupted at the suture; scutellum dark. Thorax black-haired; apical 

 scutellar bristles small, crossing, somewhat erect. Four sternopleural 

 bristles (generally, sometimes only three). Abdomen black, some- 

 what shining, the three last segments with greyish pruinose front j 

 band, shifting with dark tessellations according to view; somewhatj 

 broad hind margins and a middle line black. Abdomen black-haired ;J 

 on second segment a pair of weak marginal bristles, on third a paii 

 of discai and marginal and on fourth a pair of discai and a row ofj 

 marginal bristles. Legs black; middle tibiæ with only one antero- 

 dorsal bristle; hind tibiæ with a rather dense anterodorsal row oi 

 somewhat equal bristles. Wings clear, a little darkened at base; 



