402 Tachinidae. 



1. H. flavipes R. D. 



1830. E. D. Myod. 98, 1 et 1848. Ann. Soc. Ent. de Fr. 2, VI, 442, 1 et 

 1863. Posth. I, 578, 2. — 1906. Villen. Wien. Ent. Zeitg. XXV, 286. — 1907. 

 Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 421 (Myiobia). — 1924. Stein, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 

 90, 6, 127. — Paraneaera pauciseta B. B. 1894. Denksclir. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 

 LXI, 618. — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 380 {Erythrocera). — 1907. Villen. 

 Wien. Ent. Zeitg. XXVI, 249, 7. 



Of this species I know only tlie female. Frons above broad, 

 about double as broad as the eye, somewhat protruding; cheeks 

 rather broad. Orbits grey, cheeks and jowls silvery; frontal stripe 

 yellowish brown. Frontal bristles descending to insertion of arista, 

 one upper reclinate. Orbits with some black hairs and jowls black- 

 haired. Occiput grey, sparingly white-haired. Antennæ black, basal 

 joints red (in one of my specimens also third joint red); second 

 joint short, third about six times as long; arista thickened in basal 

 half. Palpi whitish yellow, slightly dilated outwards. Thorax grey 

 pruinose, with four narrow, black stripes, the median abbreviated 

 behind, the lateral divided at the suture into two spots; scutellum 

 grey. Thorax black-haired. Abdomen all grey pruinose, with narrow, 

 blackish hind margins to the segments, interrupted in the middle; 

 it is 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 yellow, tarsi dark brownish 

 to blackish. Wings slightly yellowish; veins brown; first posterior 

 cell narrowly open or just closed, ending just before apex of wing; 

 discai angle rounded. Squamulæ whitish yellow. Halteres yellow. 



Length. About 5 mm. 



H. flavipes is rare in Denmark, I know only three specimens, 

 all females; one is bred from a larva of Cidaria sp., taken in the 

 vicinity of Copenhagen (Worm Hansen), the two others are from 

 Sønderborg on 2^/4 — 1^/5 (Wiistnei). 



Geographical distribution: ■ — Middle Europe down into France; 

 not known north of Denmark. 



90. Lydina R. D. 



Smallish species of æneous black colour. Head fully as broad 

 as thorax, a little convex behind and puffed out below, higher than 

 long. Frons broad in both sexes, broadest in female, slightly pro- 

 truding. Orbits broad, especially downwards; jowls about half as 



