366 Tachinidae. 



Geographical distribution: — Northern and middle Europe, 

 not known north of Denmark. 



2. A. tragica Meig. 



1824. Meig. Syst. Besclir. IV, 408, 293 {Tachina) et 1838. VII, 249, 5 

 {Degeeria). — 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 535 (Degeeria). — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. 

 III, 396. — 1907. Villen. Wien. Ent. Zeitg. XXVI, 249, 4. — 1921. Baer, Zeit- 

 schr. f. angew. Ent. VII, 373. — 1924. Stein, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 144, 2. 

 — Pentatmjia parva B. B. 1889. Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LVI, 164, Tab. II, 

 Fig. 25. — 1907. Villen. 1. c. 249, 6. — Roeselia atricula Pand. 1896. Kev. 

 Entom. XV, 44, 2. — 1907. Villen. Ann. Soc. Ent. de Fr. LXXVI, 338. 



Of this species I know only the female. Similar to the foregoing 

 species. Frons nearly double as broad as the eye, slightly protruding. 

 Orbits black, somewhat shining; cheeks bluish black; jowls grey. 

 Frontal strips black, rather narrow. Vibrissæ smaller than in cloacellae. 

 Occiput blackish, with nearly all black hairs. Antennæ black, third 

 joint about thrice as long as second; arista thickened in basal half, 

 second joint slightly elongated. Palpi black. Thorax black, shining, 

 only humeri grey pruinose; three postsutural dorsocentrals; scutel- 

 lum with a pair of quite small diverging apical bristles. Abdomen 

 black, somewhat shining, without bands; it is black-haired, with 

 bristles as in cloacellae, but both hairs and bristles are smaller. Legs 

 black ; hind tibiæ with bristles as in cloacellae. Wings a little brownish 

 yellow tinged and brownish yellow at base; veins pale brownish. 

 Squamulæ yellow. Halteres dark. 



Length 5 mm. 



A. tragica is rare in Denmark, we have only two specimens, both 

 females, from Boserup (H. J. Hansen) and from Brahe Trolleborg 

 on Funen; the latter specimen is bred from an undetermined lepi- 

 dopterous larva on birch, taken on ^/g, the fly came on ^o/^ (C s. 

 Larsen). It is otherwise known as bred from Carpocapsa pomonella. 



Geographical distribution: — Middle and southern Europe; 

 not known north of Denmark. 



80. Anacliaetopsis B. B. 



Small species of black colour. Head slightly broader than thorax,. 

 a little convex behind, almost not pufTed out below, considerably 

 higher than long. Frons broad and about equal in both sexes, almost 

 not protruding. Jowls about one fourth of the height of the eye. 

 In both sexes ocellar, inner and outer vertical and two orbital bristles. 



