546 Tachinidae. 



124, 5. — Phorichaeta tricincta Rond. 1861. Dipt. Ital. Prodr. IV, 103, 8. — 

 1893. B. B. Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LX, 225. — 1896. Pand. Rev. Entom. 

 XV, 124, 1 {ScopoUa). — 1907. Villen. Ann. Soc. Ent. de Fr. LXXVI, 392 

 {Scopolia). 



Of this species I know only the female. Frons broader than the 

 eye; jowls only a little more than half the height of the eye. Orbits. 

 cheeks and jowls grey; frontal stripe velvet black or brownish black. 

 No outer vertical bristles; three orbitals. Frontal and genal bristles 

 as in the other species, but no reclinate upper frontal. Orbits and 

 cheeks distinctly hairy, and jowls with some bristly hairs. Occiput 

 grey, with whitish hairs and rows of black hairs behind postocular 

 bristles. Antennæ black, third joint nearly thrice as long as second; 

 arista thickened in less than basal half. Palpi blackish. Thorax black, 

 shining, bluish grey pruinose, especially in front, leaving three broad 

 black stripes, confluent behind; scutellum black. Thorax with short 

 and sparse black hairs; two præ- and postsutural acrostichals; no 

 præsutural intraalar bristle. Scutellum with three marginal bristles 

 on each side, and with some discals. Three sternopleural bristles. 

 Abdomen black, shining, the three last segments with a narrow, 

 whitish silvery front band, shifting with dark according to view, 

 and somewhat interrupted in the middle, so that a middle stripe is 

 visible. Abdomen black-haired, with discai and marginal bristles as 

 in costata; fifth segment with two rows of bristles besides the apical. 

 Legs black; anterodorsal bristles on front tibiæ unusually long; 

 front tarsi with the three last joints a little dilated. Wings slightly 

 greyish, nearly clear; veins black; first posterior cell with a short 

 peduncle; apical cross-vein strongly concave above the angle, the 

 latter very acute with a minute veinlet; cubital vein with bristles 

 to medial cross-vein; costal spine strong. Squamulæ white. Halteres 

 dark brown. 



Length 6,5 — 7 mm. 



W. lentis is rare in Denmark, only two specimens, both females 

 are known, taken at Tisvilde on ^/g 1923 (Kryger) and in Jutland 

 at Skørping on ^^/y 1924 (the author). 



Geographical distribution: — Middle and southern Europe; 

 not known north of Denmark. 



136. Tlielaipa R. D. 



Rather large species of black colour, with reddish sides of abdomen 

 in male and with whitish pruinosity. Head broader than thorax, aimost 



