534 Tachinidae. 



Occiput grey, with black hairs and pale hairs below. Antennæ blackish 

 with basal joints yellow. Palpi yellow, dark at apex. Thorax and 

 its bristles as in inanis only the colour more grey; scutellum quite 

 grey. Abdomen likewise as in inanis but more grey, and the pale 

 side spots smaller. Legs yellow or yellowish brown, tarsi black; claws 

 and pulvilli not elongated. Wings as in inanis. Squamulæ whitish. 

 Halteres yellow. 



Female. Similar; frons of about same breadtli and the bristles 

 the same. Abdomen quite grey. 



Length 6,5 — 7 mm. 



M. tibialis is like the preceding very rare in Denmark, only 

 three specimens, two males and a female are known; Maribo and 

 Lysemose at Maribo (Schlick) and in Jutland at Sønderborg (Wiistnei); 

 the dates are ^"/g — ^V?- It, is known as bred from larvæ of the non 

 Danish Olethreutes lucivagana. 



Geographical distribution: — Europe; not known north of 

 Denmark. 



131. Zophomyia Macq. 



Medium sized bluish black species without pruinosity. Head as 

 broad as thorax, convex behind and strongly pufTed out below, about 

 as long as high. Frons broad in both sexes, rather strongly protruding; 

 jowls half as broad as the height of the eye. In both sexes erect and 

 outwards directed ocellar, inner and outer vertical and two orbital 

 bristles, the anterior directed downwards, the other directed outwards. 

 Distinct postocellar and occipital bristles. Postocular bristles strong, 

 with all black hairs behind. Frontal bristles not reaching end of 

 second antennal joint, outwards to the uppermost an outwards 

 directed bristle in both sexes. Cheeks bare, only the hairs on orbits 

 stretching a little down. Oral bristles strong. Vibrissæ a little ascending. 

 Eyes hairy. Epistoma somewhat retreating, reflected below. Pro- 

 boscis of medium length, somewhat slender. Palpi thread-like. An- 

 tennæ inserted below middle of the eye, third joint about one and a 

 half times as long as second; arista with second joint short. Thorax a 

 little rectangular; three postsutural dorsocentrals, no præsutural 

 and only præscutellar postsutural acrostichals ; no præsutural intraalar 

 bristle; one posthumeral bristle. Scutellum with four marginal 

 bristles on each side, the apical small, crossing. Three sternopleural 

 bristles. Above on pteropleura a bundle of small hairs with a very 



