526 Tachinidae. 



less brownish tinged, most towards anterior margin; veins brown; 

 subcostal vein ending above or generally a little beyond medial 

 cross-vein; first posterior cell short-petiolate; discai angle slightly 

 obtuse, nearly rectangular, sometimes with a quite short veinlet. 

 Squamulæ white. Halteres brownish. 



Female. Similar; frons as broad as or broader than the eye. 

 Front tarsi with the three last joints flattened and slightly dilated. 

 Wings considerably darker than in male. 



Length. About 7 — 9 mm. 



E. rufomaculatus is one of our most common Tachinids and has 

 been taken in most parts of our country; it occurs on many various 

 localities, often on sandy piaces and near the shore, in low herbage 

 and on umbellifers and often on Thymus; my dates are ^/g — ^/g. 



Geographical distribution: — All Europe; towards the north 

 to northern Scandinavia. 



2. E. apenninus Rond. 

 1862. Rond. Dipt. Ital.'Prodr. V, 164, 2 (Rhynchista) . — 1891. B. B. 

 Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LVIII, 385 {OUvieria). — 1898. Brauer, Sitzungs- 

 bericU. Akad. Wiss. Wien, CVII, 529 {OUvieria). — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt 

 III, 425. — 1924. Stein, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 169, 1. 



Male. This species is quite similar to the preceding. No outwards 

 directed upper frontal bristle; outer vertical bristles rather small. 

 Antennæ with third joint somewhat dilated. Palpi yellow or yellowish. 

 Legs with claws and pulvilli rather strongly elongated, also on hind 

 legs, and longer than fifth joint. Wings only a little tinged; sub- 

 costal vein ending considerably beyond medial cross-vein; first 

 posterior cell very narrowly open or just closed at the margin. 



Female. I do not know this sex. 



E. apenninus is very rare in Denmark, I know only two spec- 

 imens, both males, taken in Jutland at Søndervig on ^/g together 

 with rufomaculatus. 



Geographical distribution: — Middle and southern Europe; 

 not known north of Denmark. 



127. Demoticus Macq. 



Species of medium size and greyish colour. Head fully as broad 

 as thorax, a little convex behind and somewhat puffed out below, 

 slightly higher than long. Frons broad and about equal in both 



