440 Tachinidae. 



and jowls yellowåsh, silvery, in certain views red; frontal stripe 

 reddish, seen from in front greyish pruinose. Two orbitals present. 

 Frontal bristles descending to the end of second antennal joint, a 

 couple of the uppermost reelinate or directed outwards; some of 

 the hairs on orbits bristly, especially a row on each side of frontal 

 stripe. Vibrissæ ascending about to the middle, fine but not short, 

 placed in more than one row. Orbits with fine hairs besides the 

 bristly; jowls with few, black hairs. Occiput grey, with whitish hairs. 

 Antennæ black, basal joint red; arista thick to apex, short-pointed, 

 third joint longer than second. Palpi yellow, a little dilated outwards. 

 Thorax black, greyish pruinose, with two narrow median stripes, 

 abbreviated behind, and two lateral, less distin et stripes; scutellum 

 dark. Thorax black-haired; three or sometimes four postsutural 

 dorsocentrals. Scutellum with four marginal bristles on each side, 

 the apical crossing. Abdomen somewhat short and broad, black, 

 shining; the three last segments with a greyish white pruinose band 

 on the front half, shifting with dark tessellations according to view; 

 abdomen is black-haired, with a pair of marginal bristles on third 

 and a row on fourth segment; fifth segment with only a row of mar- 

 ginal bristles, for the rest with bristly hairs. Legs black, somewhat 

 robust and with long bristles. Wings brownish tinged, especially 

 at base and anterior margin; veins brown; discai angle with a quite 

 short veinlet; first posterior cell narrowly open, Squamulæ whitish. 

 H alteres brownish. 



Female. I do not know the female, it is described to have the 

 third antennal joint shorter. 



Length 12,5 mm. 



G. riificeps is rare in Denmark, I know only two specimens, 

 both males, one from Sealand, the other from Lolland at Kværkeby, 

 taken on i^/, 1908 (L. Jørgensen). 



Geographical distribution: — Europe; towards the north to 

 middle Sweden. 



104. Bracliychaeta Rond. 



Smallish species of black colour, with some white pruinosity. 

 Head fully as broad as thorax, gomewhat convex behind and a little 

 puffed out below; epistoma somewhat strongly retreating and thus 

 the head somewhat triangular in profile, higher than long. Frons 

 very broad in both sexes, only slightly declining, but strongly pro- 



