418 Tachinidae. 



Male. Frons above qiiite narrow, widening downwards. Orbits 

 and cheeks grej or yellowish grey; jowls more reddish; epistoma 

 yellow, whitish pruinose. Frontal stripe red to blackish brown. Orbits 

 nearly bare, jowls with few black hairs behind. Occiput grey, with 

 black hairs, and inwards and below yellow hairs. Antennæ yellow; 

 arista dark, evenly tapering. Palpi yellow. Thorax black, grey prui- 

 nose, wdth four black stripes before the suture, the median approxi- 

 mated or nearly confluent, the lateral forming a spot on each side. 

 Humeri often a little reddish, and scutellum more or less reddish at 

 apex. Thorax black-haired; scutellum with some discai bristles. Åb- 

 domen black, more or less to extensively reddish at the sides and round 

 apex, the black middle part incised at the incisures; the three last 

 segments whitish grey pruinose, shifting with dark according to view, 

 and at the front margin silvery bands, interrupted in the middle. 

 Venter red. Abdomen with fme black or brownish black hairs, and 

 with discai and marginal bristles which are somewhat numerous and 

 irregular, and also present on second segment, the marginal forming 

 rows on third and fourth segment. Legs yellow, rather bristly; the 

 femora may be more or less dark above, especially front femora. 

 Wings yellowish tinged, especially along the veins; these latter yellow, 

 outwards more brown. Squamulæ yellowish. Halteres yellow. 



Female. Similar, but abdomen not reddish m.arked. Frons above 

 much broader than the eye. Legs all yellow. 



Length. About 10 mm. 



T. alpina is very rare in Denmark, we possess only one specimen, 

 a female, taken at Sinding near Silkeborg on ^^/g 1913 (Esben-Peter- 

 sen). The above description of the male is drawn from Swedish spec- 

 imens. — I have examined specimens of T. limbata sent from Zetter- 

 stedt to Stæger. 



Geographical distribution : — Europe ; towards the north to 

 northern Sweden, and in Finland; it occurs especially in mountainous 

 districts. 



98. Loeivia Egg. 



Species of medium or small size and of black, somewhat bluish 

 colour. Head fully as broad as thorax, short and rather low, much 

 broader than high; behind it is somewhat flat above, more convex 

 and somewhat puffed out below. Frons very narrow in male, broader 

 in female, not protruding, the head in profile rounded in front. Jowls 



