Carcelia. 381 



— 1907. Villen. Wien, Ent. Zeitg. XXVI, 247, 3. — Exorista flavicans Macq. 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. de Fr. 2, VII, 391, 52, Tab. XI, fig. 24. 



Male. Frons above scarcely half as broad as the eye; cheeks 

 rather narrow. Orbits yellowish, cheeks and jowls silvery; frontal 

 stripe velvet black, narrower than orbits. Frontal bristles descending 

 to insertion of arista. Orbits and jowls with black hairs. Occipiit 

 yellowish, with white hairs. Eyes with pale yellow hairs. Antennæ 

 black, third joint thrice as long as second; arista long, thickened in 

 less than basal half and evenly tapering. Palpi yellow. Thorax yellowish 

 pruinose with four dark stripes, the median abbreviated behind, 

 the lateral interrupted at the suture and divided into two elongate 

 spots. Scutellum somewhat yellowish. Thorax black-haired. Ab- 

 domen a little elongated conical, the three last segments yellowish 

 pruinose, leaving narrow hind margins and a middle stripe black. 

 Abdomen black-haired, second segment with a pair, third with four 

 and fourth with a row of marginal bristles. No real digcal bristles, 

 at most some stronger hairs. Legs black, tibiæ brownish, dark on basal 

 part; hind coxæ without bristles behind; front tibiæ with two postero- 

 ventral bristles; middle tibiæ with one anterodorsal bristle and no 

 ventral bristle; hind tibiæ with a row of dense anterodorsal bristles, 

 with one long bristle. Wings nearly clear or somewhat yellowish 

 brown at base and anterior margin. Squamulæ yellowish. Balteres 

 dirty yellow. 



Female. Similar; colour generally more greyish; frons broader, 

 but not as broad as the eye; frontal stripe at most half as broad 

 as the orbit. 



Length 7 — 8 mm. 



C. rutilla is rare in Denmark, I know 7 specimens in all, three 

 males and four females, from Hornbæk and Tisvilde; the dates are 

 in September. The specimens from Hornbæk are bred from Bupaliis 

 piniarius in November (Weis). The species was besides earlier known 

 from Dendrolimiis pin i. 



Geographical distribution: — Europe; towards the north to 

 Southern Sweden (se Remarks under Winthemia speciosa). 



This species is, besides by the characters given in the table, 

 known among the Danish species by the rather yellowish colour, 

 and the male abdomen without red side spots. 



Remarks: I possess a specimen, female, from Sønderborg (Wust- 

 nei) which has only one bristle on front tibiæ ; it would thus be excisa 

 FalL, but otherwise it is more like rutilla, so that perhaps it is an 



