424 Tachinidae. 



bushes and trees, sometimes rather high, Some of our specimens are 

 bred from Demos coryli (Weis). It is otherwise known from Euplexia 

 liicipara, Trachea atriplicis, Amphidasis betularia and Spilosoma 

 lubricipeda; other recorded hosts seem doubtful. 



Geographical distribution: — Europe down into Italy; towards 

 the north to southern Sweden (Ringdahl). 



2. N. rubrica Meig. 



1824. Meig. Syst. Beschr. IV, 255, 27 {Tachina) et 1838. VII, 222, 25. — 

 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 449. — 1889. B. B. Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LVI. 

 178, Tab. VII, Fig. 143. — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 223. — 1921. Baer, 

 Zeitschr. f. angew. Ent. VII, 136. — 1924. Stein, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 54. 

 — Tachina vulnerata Zett. 1849. Dipt. Scand. VIII, 3204, 88—89 et 1859. 

 XIII, 6095, 88—89. — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 216 (Ernestia). 



This species is highly similar to pellucida in almost all respects. 

 It is smaller; abdomen has the red markings smaller, so that the 

 middle stripe is broader and fifth segment is black, sometimes also 

 the extreme margin of foiirth. The wings are more tinged, but less 

 yellow at base. The female differs from the male as in pellucida. 



Length 7 — 9 mm. 



N. rubrica is rare in Denmark ; Dyrehaven, Faxe Ladeplads, on 

 Funen at Faaborg, and in Jutland without particular locality; the 

 dates are in July. The species is recorded as bred from Sphinx ligustri, 

 Demas coryli and the non Danish Mamestra aliena and Leineri; one 

 of my specimens is labelled as bred from D. coryli, and another (which 

 I take as this species) from the pupa of Zenosema linearia? taken 

 on -^"/ii' t^i6 fly developing on ^s/^ ((]. s. Larsen). 



Geographical distribution: — Europe; towards the north to 

 southern Sweden. 



Remarks: Stein has seen one of my specimens and determined 

 it as rubrica; my material includes the type specimen of vulnerata 

 Zett. I have at present kept the species, but I very much doubt its 

 specific distinctness, and think it to represent only small specimens 

 of pellucida. 



Group 3. 



100. Cchinomyia Dumér. 



Species of rather or very large size and of black or black and red 

 colour. Head about as broad as thorax, convex behind and here some- 



