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105. Admontia B. B. 



Species of smallish to medium size; colour black, with pale prui- 

 nosity on thorax and as bands on abdomen. Head fully as broad as 

 thorax, a little convex behind and somewhat puffed out below, 

 higher than long. Frons rather broad and equal in both sexes, some- 

 what protruding; cheeks somewhat broad; jowls broader than half 

 the height of the eye. In both sexes ocellar, inner vertical and two 

 orbital bri&tles, but no or quite small outer verticals. Postocellar and 

 occipital bristles distinct. Behind postocular bristles rows of black 

 hairs. Frontal bristles descending to end of second antennal joint, 

 the uppermost reclinate in both sexes, with an outwards directed 

 brigtle behind. Cheeks with hairs, more or less bristly. Vibrissæ 

 ascending above the middle, Eyes bare. Epistoma somewhat retreating, 

 flat, not or almost not reflected below. Oral cone and proboscis rather 

 short. Antennæ inserted high above middle of the eye, long and 

 narrow, third joint six times as long as second; arista with second 

 joint elongated. Thorax rectangular; three postsutural dorsocentrals, 

 and three præ- and three postsutural acrostichals; a præsutural 

 intraalar bristle. Scutellum with four marginal bristles on each 

 side, the apical somewhat small and diverging, Three sternopleural 

 bristles. Pteropleura with a little bunch of hairs and a small bristle 

 above. Abdomen in male conical, with genitalia small, in female 

 more oval and flattened; excavation on second segment not reaching 

 hind margin. There are discai and marginal bristles, second segment 

 with a pair of marginal. Legs with anterodorsal bristles on hind tibiæ 

 unequal; claws and pulvilli in male not elongated; front tarsi in female 

 with second to fourth joint flat and dilated. Wings with first posterior 

 cell narrowly open or just closed, ending just before apex of wing; 

 discai angle obtuse and rounded; posterior cross- vein behind middle 

 between medial cross- vein and angle; a not large costal spine. 



About the biology is only known that amica has been bred 

 from an undetermined Ti/jw/a-larva. 



Two or three European species are recorded, one occurring 

 in Denmark. 



1. A. amica Meig. 



1838. Meig. Syst. Beschr.. VII, 250, 12 (Degeeria). — 1894. Strobl, Mittheil. 

 Ver. Steirm. XXX, 43. — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 393. — 1921. Baer, 

 Zeitschr. f. angew. Ent. VII, 372. — A. podomyia B. B. 1889. Denkschr. Akad. 



