496 



Tachinidae. 



in front and here with four stripes; the pruinose stripe between the 

 middle stripes indistinct, so that the stripe^ are rather confluent; 

 scutellum black or dark reddish at apex. Thorax black-haired; three 

 postsutural dorsocentrals and two præ- and three postsutiiral acro- 

 stichals. Scutellum with four (sometimes five) marginal bristles on 

 each side, the apical small, crossing. Abdomen black or a little bluish 

 black, shining, not reddish at the sides; it has broad, whitish or bluish 

 white pruinose front bandg on third to fifth segment, generally less 

 pronounced on the latter segment ; the segments rather shining below. 

 Abdomen black-haired, with a pair of discai and marginal bristles 



on third and fourth segment, and also a 

 distinct pair of discai on fifth. Fifth sternite 

 large, cleft to the middle or a little beyond, 

 the incision pointed or more roundish at 

 bottom; the lamellæ triangular, somewhat 

 pointed, with hairs and some bristles at 

 hind margin. Genitalia somewhat large; 

 præhypopygial segment shining, with long 

 hairg. Hypopygium with bristles behind; 

 upper and lower forceps somewhat like 

 those in vivida and connivens; upper forceps 

 broad at base and dilated wing-like to the 

 sides, with a compressed triangular tooth 

 in the middle, the anterior part forming an 

 S-like curved, pointed spine; arms of lower 

 forceps With a scale-like piece at base, 

 inwards from wliich the arms issue; these are broad in basal part, 

 almost rectangularly curved forwards in the middle, and bifid or 

 with a little hook at apex; they are longer than upper forceps; upper 

 and lower forceps haired as in vivida. Legs black. Wings somewhat 

 brownish tinged, darker at base; veins dark or blackish brown, 

 medial cross- vein a little clouded; first posterior cell quite narrowly 

 open; discai angle with a minute veinlet. Squamulæ whitish. Halteres 

 brown. 



Female. Similar; frons considerably broader than the eye; 

 fourth abdominal segment with a row of marginal bristles; front 

 tarsi with three last joints dilated. 

 Length 7 to about 11 mm, 



E. conjugata is not just common in Denmark; Lundtofte, Ordrup, 

 Charlottenlund, Lyngby Mose, Tisvilde and on Fænø; the dates are 

 ■'/5 — ^^/g. No host is recorded. 



Fig. 107. E. conjugata, 

 lower forceps with scale- 

 like piece, and basal tooth 

 of upper forceps, also apex 

 of upper forceps is seen. 



