348 Tachinidae. 



1. G. connexa Meig. 



1824. Meig. Syst. Beschr. IV, 366, 219 (Tachina) et 1838. VII, 216, 1. 

 Tab. LXX, Fig. 1—5. — 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 487. — 1889. B. B. Denkschr. 

 Akad. Wiss. AVien, LVI, 91, Tab. IL Fig. 32. — 1896. Pand. Rev. Entom. XV, 

 121, 4 [Erynnia). — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 306. -- 1924. Stein, Arch. 

 f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 106. 



Of this species I know only the female. The male has, according 

 to Villeneuve (Ann. des Se. Nat. ZooL 10, VII, 1924, 38, note), a 

 patch of short dense hairs on ventral side of abdomen, somewhat 

 as in Lydella stabulans. Female. Frons broader than the eye; orbits 

 broad. The orbits grey above, downwards together with cheeks 

 silvery; jowls grey; frontal stripe narrower than the orbits, velvet 

 blackish brown. Vibrissæ not short, but fme. Orbits with longish 

 black hairs; at the outer margin of the cheeks below the frontal 

 bristles a row of bristly hairs, almost looking as a continuation of 

 the frontal bristles; jowls with black, partly strong hairs. Occiput 

 grey, with whitish hairs, and only some black hairs below. Antennæ 

 with the two basal joints yellowish, third black, not twice as long as 

 second; arista thickened in about basal half. Palpi blackish brown. 

 Thorax black, greyish white pruinose, with four black stripes, the 

 median abbreviated behind, the lateral a little broader than the 

 median; scutellum yellowish, dark at base. Thorax black-haired. 

 Abdomen blackish, on each side a red spot, reaching over second, 

 third and fourth segment, and fifth segment red on lateral and hind 

 margin; abdomen greyish white pruinose all over, shifting with 

 varying dark tessellations according to view, and in a certain light 

 showing a dark spot on each side of the middle on third and fourth 

 segment; third and fourth segment with narrow black and shining 

 hind margins. Abdomen black-haired, second segment with a pair of 

 marginal bristles, third with a pair of discai and marginal, and fourth 

 with a pair of discai and a row of marginal bristles. Legs black, tibiæ 

 obscurely reddish. Wings a little brownish tinged; veins blackish 

 brown. Squamulæ white. Balteres yellowish brown. 



Length 7,5 mm. 



G. connexa seems very rare in Denmark, I know only one spec- 

 imen, a female, taken in Nørholm Skov at Varde on ^^t ^^^^ 

 (Kryger). 



Geographical distribution: — Europe; not known north of 

 Denmark. 



