446 Tachinidae. 



black, second joint short, third long and linear, six times as long as 

 second; arista thickened in basal half, second joint somewhat elong- 

 ated. Palpi black or blackish. Thorax black, shining, whitish grey 

 pruinose, with two very broad black stripes, confluent behind the 

 suture, but thorax again pruinose in front of scutellum; thorax is 

 thus black with the sides grey, and a narrow median grey stripe, 

 stopping at the suture, and a space in front of scutellum grey; scu- 

 tellum black. Thorax very sparingly with short black hairs; two or 

 three præ- and three to four postsutural acrostichals. Scutellum 

 with no or quite small apical hairs. Abdomen black, shining; the three 

 last segments with a narrow white pruinose front band, shifting to 

 brown, according to view. Abdomen is black-haired ; second segment 

 with a pair of marginal bristles, third with a pair of discai and marginal 

 and fourth with a pair of discai and a row of marginal. Legs black; 

 middle tibiæ with one long anterodorsal bristle (generally). Wings 

 from very slightly to somewhat strongly brown tinged ; veins blackish 

 brown; first posterior cell just closed; discai angle rounded. Squamulæ 

 whitish or a little yellowish. H alteres yellowish brown or brown, 



Female. Similar; frons of the same breadth; orbits more silvery; 

 antennæ as in male. Front tarsi with second to fourth joint dilated, 

 fifth narrower. 



Length. Rather varying in size, the length from 4 to 7 mm. 



T. blanda is rare in Denmark, I know in all eight specimens, a 

 male and seven females; Ermelund, Lave Skov near Helsingør," 

 Tisvilde, and in Jutland at Ry, Funder and Hoed south of Grenaa; 

 the dates are ^'/g — ^^/lo- 



Geographical distribution : — Europe down into France ; towards 

 the north to middle Sweden, and in Finland. 



2. T. seria Meig. 



1824. Meig. Syst. Beschr. IV, 408, 294 {Tachina) et 1838. VII, 249, 4 

 (Degeeria). — 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 535 (Degeeria). — 1889. B. B. Denkschr. 

 Akad. Wiss. Wien, LVI, 103, Tab. V, Fig. 91. — 1896. Pand. Rev. Entom. 

 XV, 114, 9 {Latreillia). — 1907. Villen. Ann. Soc. Ent. de Fr. LXXVI, 391 

 {Latreillia). — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 394. — 1921. Baer, Zeitschr. f. 

 angew. Ent. VII, 372. — 1924. Stein, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 147, 4. — Ta- 

 china maculisquama Zett. 1859, Dipt. Scand. XIII, 6088, 67 — 68. 



Male. Frons above considerably broader than the eye, somewhat 

 protruding; jowls about half the height of the eye. Orbits grey above, 

 downwards together with cheeks silvery white; jowls grey; frontal 



