Nemoraea. 421 



This species is very similar to the preceding but considerably 

 smaller. Male. In colour and common appearance like foeda; frons 

 still narrower, the eyes almost touching. Cheeks much more haired, 

 and the hairs strong and bristly. Palpi brownish. Thorax and ab- 

 domen with bristles as in foeda. Legs scarcely so robust as in foeda 

 and hind tibiæ not arched on posteror side; claws and pulvilli rela- 

 tively less elongate. Wings narrower than in foeda, coloured in the 

 same way; first posterior cell with the peduncle a little longer and 

 hence discai angle more rectangular; postical vein less curved or 

 almost straight and less diverging from discai vein. 



Female. Likewise similar to foeda and also with second antennal 

 joint red; frons not broader than the eye. 



Length. About 4,5 mm. 



L. petiolata is like foeda rare in Denmark; Humlebæk, Lave 

 Skov near Helsingør (I. C. Nielsen), Tisvilde (the author), on Funen 

 at Odense (H. J. Hansen) and in Jutland at Kliplev (the author); 

 the dates are ^/^ — '/g. 



Geographical distribution: — Europe down into Spain; not 

 known north of Denmark. 



Remarks: Stein mentions L. phaeoptera Meig. from Denmark, 

 but this is an error; the specimens from me which Stein had seen 

 were a petiolata male and a foeda female. 



99. Nemopaea R. D. 



Species of rather large size, of blackish colour, in male with 

 abdomen extensively red. Head a little narrower than thorax, some- 

 what short, convex behind and puffed out below, higher than long. 

 Frons narrow in male, broader in female, somewhat protruding. Jowls 

 broad, but not as broad as the eye is high. In both sexes ocellar 

 and inner vertical, in female also outer vertical and three (generally) 

 orbital bristles. Postocellar and occipital bristles indistinct. No black 

 hairs behind postocular bristles. Frontal bristles descending below 

 insertion of antennæ or to near end of second antennal joint, all 

 Crossing in male, in female the upper directed outwards. Cheeks bare. 

 Vibrissæ ascending to a little below the middle, or only to one third 

 of the height. Eyes hairy. Epistoma a little retreating, slightly hol- 

 lowed, nearly straight; the vibrissal ridges curving strongly inwards 

 below, so that epistoma is here considerably narrowed; the ridges 

 are flattened below. Oral bristles well developed. Oral cone and pro- 



