540 Tachinidae. 



135 Blepharoniyia B. B 



Species of medium size, black with grey pruinosity. Head fully 

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

 below, higher than long. Frons somewhat narrow and a little narrower 

 in male than in female, somewhat protruding. Jowls about half as 

 broad as the height of the eye. In both sexes ocellar and inner vertical 

 bristles, and further some orbitals, fmer in male than in female (in 

 our species, in pagana male no orbitals). Postocellar and occipital 

 bristles relatively large. Behind postocular bristles occiput covered 

 with black hairs. Frontal bristles slightly descending, not to end of 

 second antennal joint, the uppermost directed outwards in both 

 sexes. Cheeks with a row of relatively strong bristles along inner margin 

 and besides with fme hairs. Vibrissæ not ascending. Eyes hairy. 

 Epistoma retreating and a little reflected below. Antennæ inserted 

 a little above middle of the eye, third joint about four times as long 

 as second (in our species), broad and strongly dilated, smaller in 

 female, but, however, broad; arista with second joint a little elongated, 

 slightly in female. Thorax a little rectangular; three postsatural 

 dorsocentrals and two præ- and three postsutural acrostichals; no 

 præsutural intraalar bristle. Scutellum with three marginal bristles 

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

 lower generally fme. Pteropleura with a bristle above. Abdomen with 

 excavation on second segment not reaching hind margin; there are 

 discai and marginal bristles, on second segment a pair of marginal. 

 Legs with anterodorsal bristles on hind tibiæ unequal; claws and pul- 

 villi in male somewhat elongated; tarsi in female with the joints a 

 little thickened towards end. Wings with first posterior cell narrowly 

 open, ending just before apex of wing; discai angle obtuse; a moderate 

 costal spine. 



The genus seems to contain two species, one occurring in Denmark. 



1. B. amplicornis Zett. 



1844. Zett. DIpt. Scand. III, 1152, 151 et 1859. XIII, 6129, 151 {Tachina). 

 — 1889. B. B. Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LVI, 105, Tab. V, Fig. 98. — 

 1895. Pand. Rev. Entom. XIV, 328, 13 {Macquartia). — 1924. Stein, Arch. f. 

 Naturgesch. 90, 6, 162, 1. — Phorocera incerta Meade 1897. Ent. Month. Mag. 2, 

 VIII, 223. 



Male. Frons about two thirds as broad as the eye, orbits fully 

 half as broad as frontal stripe. Orbits and cheeks whitish or silvery, 

 jowls grey; frontal stripe velvet brownish black, seen from in front 



