478 Tachinidae. 



Wings somewhat brownish tinged; veins brown; apical cross-vein 

 rather sloping. Squamulæ whitish. Halteres yellow. 



Female. Of somewhat different aspect. Antennæ smaller and a 

 little pale at base. Thorax with the median stripes confluent to one 

 broad stripe. Abdomen without yellow markings. Wings more brown 

 than in male. 



Length 4,5 — 5 mm. 



I have examined Zetterstedt's type to T. maculiventris ; it is 

 a male. 



H. delecta is rare in Denmark, we have only six specimens, three 

 males and three females; Ordrup Mose, Charlottenlund (the author), 

 Dyrehaven, Humlebæk, Grib Skov and Frederikssund (Kryger); 

 the dates are '/, — ^Is- 



Geographical distribution: — Europe down into Italy; towards 

 the north to southern Sweden. 



113. Plagia Meig. 



Medium sized species of black colour, somewhat pale pruinose. 

 Head a little broader than thorax, slightly convex behind and not 

 puffed out below, considerably higher than long. Frons somewhat 

 broad, in female slightly broader than in male, only quite slightly 

 protruding. Cheeks not specially broad, and jowls about one fourth 

 of the height of the eye. In both sexes upwards directed ocellar and 

 inner and outer vertical bristles. Postocellar and occipital bristles 

 distinct. No black hairs behind postocular bristles. Frontal bristles 

 descending at mogt to end of second antennal joint; two upper recli- 

 nate and behind them an uppermost directed outwards in both 

 sexes; outwards to the frontal bristles in both sexes a row of bristles, 

 stretching from above down the cheeks to quite below, on the orbits 

 two of them are specially strong, thus developed as orbitals; cheeks 

 besides with some fine hairs. Jowls bare. Vibrissæ not ascending. 

 Eyes short-hairy. Epistoma slightly retreating and slightly reflected 

 below. Oral cone and proboscis short; clypeus horse-shoe-shaped. 

 Antennæ inserted a little above middle of the eye, third joint only 

 a little longer than second; arista short, second joint somewhat 

 elongated, geniculate towards third. Thorax rectangular; three 

 postsutural dorsocentrals and three præ- and three postsutural 

 acrostichals; a præsutural intraalar bristle. Scutellum with three 

 marginal bristles on each side, the apical as strong as the others; 



