350 Tachinidae. 



are recorded, which cannot be interpreted or with certainty 

 placed here. 



The genus is divided into some subgenera, for our species Phoro- 

 cera s. str. {assimilis and caesifrons) and Salia R. D. {echinura); 

 they are distinguished mainly by the cheeks being bare or hairy 

 above and apical scutellar bristles being small or larger. 



Table of Species. 



1. Cheeks a little hairy above; no præsutnral intraalar bristle; 



apical scutellar bristles small or very small 2. 



— Cheeks bare; a præsutural intraalar bristle present; apical 



scutellar bristles somewhat strong 3. echinura. 



2. Second abdominal segment with the exca vation reaching 



hind margin ; scutellum more or less reddish ; large species . . 1 . assimilis. 



— Second abdominal segment with the exca vation not reaching 

 hind margin; scutellum quite dark, rarely a little reddish 



at apex ; smaller species 2. caesifrons. 



1. Ph. assimilis Fall. 



1810. Fall. Vet. Acad. Handl. XXXI, 282 et 1820. Dipt. Suec. Muse. 

 28, 58 (Tachina). — 1824. Meig. Syst. Beschr. IV, 388, 258 {Tachina) et 1838. 

 VII, 261, 7. — 1844. Zett. Dipt. Scand. III, 1124, 122 et 1859. XIII, 6114, 

 122 {Tachina). — 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 491. — 1889. B. B. Denkschr. Akad. 

 Wiss. Wien, LVI, 94, Tab. III, Fig. 46 et 1893. LX, 119 [Setigena). — 1895. 

 Pand. Rev. Entom. XIV, 330, 1. — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 315. - 

 1921. Baer, Zeitschr. f. angew. Ent. VII, 352. — 1924. Stein, Arch. f. Natur- 

 gesch. 90, 6, 110 {Chaetogena). — Tachina obscura Fall. 1810. Vet. Acad. Handl. 

 XXXI, 281 et 1820. Dipt. Suec. Muse. 29, 59. — 1844. Zett. Dipt. Scand. III, 

 1125, 123. — Tachina bellatrix Zett. 1849. 1. o. VIII, 3241, 94—95. — 1893. 

 B. B. 1. c. LX, 220. — Tachina gramma Meig. 1824. 1. c. IV, 390, 261 et 1838. 

 VII, 261, 5. — 1900. Stein, Ent. Nachricht. XXVI, 138. 



Male. Frons above not as broad as the eye, very protruding; 

 cheeks broad. Orbits grey above, downwards together- with cheeks 

 whitish or yellowish white, silvery, in some views dark; jowls grey; 

 frontal stripe velvet black. Orbits with black hairs, which descend 

 a little on the cheeks; jowls black-haired. Occiput grey, with white 

 hairs, and a row of black hairs behind postocular bristles. Eyes densely 

 pale-hairy. Antennæ black; third joint three times as long as second 

 or fully; arista thickened in basal third. Palpi yellow or brownish. 

 Thorax blackish or bluish black, a little shining, greyish or a little 

 bluish grey pruinose, with four black stripes, the median abbreviated 

 behind; scutellum more or less reddish or brownish on apical part. 



