412 Tachinidae. 



— 1891. B. B. 1. c. LVIII, 427 {Micropalpus). — Tackina fulgens Meig. 1824. 

 1. c. IV, 259, 34, Tab. XLI, Fig. 32 et 1838. VII, 217, 1, Tab. LXX, Fig. 12—17 

 (Micropalpus). — 1844. Zett. 1. c. III, 1096, 93 (Tachina). — 1862. Scbin. 

 F. A. I, 428 (Micropalpus). 



Male. Frons above fully as broad as the eye. Orbits greyish, 

 darkest above, cheeks, epistoma and jowls silverwhite priiinose ; frontal 

 stripe yellowish red, with very fme pale hairs at the sides. Orbits 

 with fme, pale and black hairs, cheeks with short, white hairs, and 

 jowls with white hairs. Occipiit grey above, yellow below, with 

 whitish hairs. Eyes with long whitish hairs. Antennæ black, some- 

 what greyish pruinose; arista shorter than antennæ, thickened to 

 near end. Palpi brownish, quite small, with a long bristle at apex. 

 Thorax black, whitish pruinose, especially in front and at the sides; 

 it has four darker stripes, the median narrow, diverging, the lateral 

 a little broader; the stripes are most distinct on front part; humeral 

 callus, sides and scutellum more or less reddish. Thorax haired with 

 white hairs, intermingled with black; at the front margin and on 

 scutellum they are black. Pleura, besides the bristles, white-haired. 

 Abdomen red, with a broad middle stripe and apex black, so that 

 the red colour forms two more or less large lateral spots; below ab- 

 domen likewise red with the middle black; it is silvery white pruinose, 

 shifting according to view. Abdomen is black-haired; second segment 

 without bristles (generally), third with a pair of discai and marginal 

 and fourth with a pair of discai and a row of marginal bristles. Fifth 

 sternite cleft about to base, the lamellæ close-lying, with the hind 

 margin roundly incised. Genital knob slightly or not protruding, 

 reddish; præhypopygial segment with a transverse row of bristly 

 hairs. Hypopygium somewhat conical behind, with backwards 

 directed bristly hairs. Upper forceps prolonged into a thin beak; 

 arms of lower forceps of a triangular shape. Legs black, the very 

 apex of femora and the tibiæ yellowish brown. Legs with long bristles, 

 especially on posterior tibiæ. Wings clear; veins yellow, outwards 

 brownish; apical cross- vein very oblique; posterior cross- vein near 

 the angle. Squamulæ white. Halteres yellow. 



Female. Similar, but abdomen with the reddish markings in- 

 distinct or quite wanting. Frons still broader than in male. Third 

 antennal joint relatively a little shorter. 



Length 9 — 10 mm. 



L. comta is rare in Denmark, we possess only three specimens, 

 two males and a female; the males taken in Jutland at Silkeborg 



