358 Tachinidae. 



more or less reddish at apical margin. Thorax with longish, dense, 

 biack liairs. Abdomen blackish, on the sides of third segment a red 

 spot, the three last segments greyish or brownish grey pruinose, 

 shifting with irregular dark markings according to view; narrow 

 hind margins and a more or less distinct narrow middle stripe black. 

 Abdomen with dense, longish black hairs, and only marginal bristles, 

 second and third segment with a pair, fourth with a row, and fifth 

 with a double row. Legs black; anterodorsal bristles on hind tibiæ 

 somewhat strong, imequal. Wings somewhat brownish tinged; veins 

 dark brown; apical cross-vein a little concave. Squamulæ whitish. 

 Halteres yellowish, the knob brown. 



Female. I do not know the female. 



Length 10 mm. 



P. media is rare in Denmark, only some few specimens have 

 been taken at Tisvilde in May and June. 



Geographical distribution: — Europe down into Italy; not 

 known north of Denmark. 



77. Campylocliaeta Rond. 



Species of somewhat small size, of blackish or brownish colour 

 with pale pruinosity. Head a little broader than thorax, convex 

 behind and here somewhat puffed out below, higher than long. Frons 

 broad, of the same or about the same breadth in both sexes, some- 

 what to rather strongly protruding. Cheeks narrow or broader; 

 jowls about half the height of the eye or broader. In both sexes 

 ocellar and inner vertical bristles present, the ocellar bristles erect, 

 directed outwards and a little backwards; in female two orbitals, 

 and none or small outer verticals. Relatively long postocellar and 

 occipital bristles. Behind postocular bristles rows of black hairs. 

 Frontal bristles few in number, descending only to insertion of 

 antennæ, all crossing. Cheeks bare, or, in one species with the hairs 

 descending from the orbit down to the lower part of the cheek. 

 Among the hairs on the jowls generally one or two bristles, placed 

 at the upper margin of the jowl. Vibrissæ ascending quite up, rather 

 strong, more or less numerous. Eyes long-haired. Antennæ inserted 

 above middle of the eye, third joint five to six times as long as second ; 

 arista with second joint short. Thorax rectangular; three postsutural 

 dorsocentrals, and two or three præ- and two postsutural acrostichals; 

 a præsutural intraalar bristle present or wanting. Scutellum with 



