462 Tachinidae. 



Male. Similar to the other species. Frons about double as broad 

 as the eye; jowls nearly half the height of the eye. Head greyish 

 brown; frontal stripe red. Antennæ black, third joint large and 

 rather broad, six times as long a^ second; arista with second joint 

 elongated. Palpi black or brownish, at all events on apical part. 

 Thorax greyish priiinose, AAith two narrow, darker median stripes, 

 abbreviated behind, and with lateral stripes represented by a small 

 spot in front of and behind the suture; scutellum grey. Three post- 

 sutural dorsocentrals. Abdomen coloured as in the other species, 

 and with the same bristles; the white front bands produced a little 

 backwards on each side of the median interruption. Legs all black. 

 Wings with posterior cross- vein rather near medial cross- vein; apical 

 cross-vein wanting or more or less rudimentary; anal vein not reaching 

 margin; subcostal vein with bristles in the whole length, cubital 

 vein to near apex and postical vein to or near to posterior cross-vein; 

 underside of subcostal vein bare. Squamulæ whitish. Halteres yellow 

 to brownish. 



Female. Similar; antennæ smaller, third joint scarcely thrice 

 as long as second. 



Length 4 — 4,5 mm. 



A. frontalis seems to be rare in Denmark; Dyrehaven, Geel 

 Skov, Grib Skov, Boserup, Ringsted, Nykøbing on Sealand, and in 

 Jutland at Laven; the dates are ^^/g — '/g- The species is known as 

 bred from Epiblema pflugiana. I have examined the Danish specimen 

 of lamia mentioned by Zetterstedt. 



Geographical distribution : — Europe ; not known in Scandinavia 

 north of Denmark, but recorded from Finland. 



5. A. nigroscutellata n. sp. Villen. in litt. 

 A. infantula Stein (nec Zett.) 1924. Arch. f. Naturg. 90, 6, 134, 9. 



Male. In shape and colour as the other species. Head almost as 

 high as broad, and frons only somewhat broader than the eye. Frontal 

 stripe dark brown, scarcely as broad as orbits. Proboscis somewhat 

 thin. Antennæ black, a little reddish at base, third joint somewhat 

 broad, about four or five times as long as second; arista black, thick- 

 ened in basal two thirds, with second joint elongated. Palpi yellow. 

 Thorax grey pruinose, with not very pronounced stripes, two narrow 

 median, abbreviated behind, and two lateral divided at the suture 

 into two oblong spots. Four postsutural dorsocentrals. Scutellum 



