454 Tachinidae. 



dark grey, with only rows of black hairs. Antennæ black, short, 

 third joint large and broad; arista short, evenly tapering and visibly 

 pubescent. Palpi black to pale brownish. Thorax black, a little shining, 

 greyish priiinose only at humeri and sides; scutellum black. Thorax 

 black-haired ; the præscutellar acrostichals strong. Abdomen black, 

 shining, with depressed black hairs, second segment without, third 

 with a pair, and fourth with a row of marginal bristles; fifth segment 

 with a double row; the bristles not large. Legs black. Wings some- 

 what greyish or yellowish tinged; veins yellow to brown; discai vein 

 reaching near to the margin and here abrupted without forming an api- 

 cal cross-vein; posterior cross-vein vvanting. Squamulæ yellowish. Hal- 

 teres brownish. 



Female. I have not seen this sex. 



Length 2,7 to about 4 mm. 



Ph. nitidiventris is rare in Denmark, I know only two specimens, 

 both males, taken at Thureby south of Køge on ^"/g (Schhck). It is 

 known as bred from Epihlema iminundana, Gypsonoma neglectana 

 and the non Danish Conchylis cebrana and Polychrosis botrana. 



Geographical distribution: — Middle and southern Europe; 

 not known north of Denmark. 



109. Craspedotlirix B. B. 



Small species of black colour, greyish on thorax and generally 

 with narrow white bands on abdomen, Head as broad as thorax, 

 slightly convex behind, much higher than long. Frons broad and 

 about equal in both sexes, very slightly protruding. Cheeks narrow; 

 jowls not broad, at most one third of the height of the eye. In both 

 sexes ocellar, inner and outer vertical and two orbital bristles. Post- 

 ocellar and occipital bristles distinct. Occiput all black-haired. Frontal 

 bristles not or scarcely reaching end of second antennal joint, above 

 a reclinate and an outwards directed bristle in both sexes. Cheeks 

 bare. Vibrissæ slightly or a little ascending. Eyes bare or slightly 

 hairy. Epistoma almost not retreating, somewhat hollowed. Palpi 

 quite small in male, larger and club-shaped in female. Antennæ 

 inserted high above middle of the eye, third joint about thrice as 

 long as second or less, broad and dilated in male, smaller in female; 

 arista with second joint elongated. Thorax rectangular; three post- 

 sutural dorsocentrals and about two præ- and three postsutural 

 acrostichals; a præsutural intraalar bristle. Scutellum with four 



