556 Tachinidae. 



V . sordidisqiiama is not just rare in Denmark; Ordrup Mose, 

 Charlottenlund, Dyrehaven, Grib Skov, Jægerspris, Bognæs; on 

 Lolland at Roden; in Jutland at Sønderborg; the dates are ^^5 — ^Vs- 



Geographical distribution: — Northern and middle Europe; 

 towards the north to southern Sweden. 



Remarks: The species is in Stæger's coUection labelled as muscaria 

 Fall. and Zetterstedt had seen specimens of it; thus Zetterstedt's 



Fig. 116. Wing of V. sordidisquama. 



muscaria is = sordidisquama, and probably the same holds good 

 with regard to muscaria Fall. If so the present species should have 

 the name muscaria Fall. and Meigen's species should have another 

 name. (See also Villen. Wien. Ent. Zeitg. XXVI, 1907. 261). 



140. Tpigonospila Pok. 



Medium sized species of blackish colour, with very conspicuous 

 white pruinose designs. Head fully as broad as thorax, somewhat 

 short and high; behind it is flat above, somewhat convex below and 

 here puffed out. Frons rather narrow in male, broader in female, a 

 little protruding. Jowls narrow. In male fme ocellar, but no vertical 

 bristles, in female inner vertical and two orbital bristles. Postocellar 

 and small occipital bristles. Postocular bristles short and fme, and 

 occiput behind them with black hairs above. Frontal bristles not 

 reaching below insertion of antennæ, all crossing in male, the upper- 

 most directed outwards in female. Cheeks bare. Vibrissæ not ascending. 

 Eyes bare. Epistoma som.ewhat retreating. Proboscis relatively short; 

 palpi thread-like in male, in female dilated outwards. Antennæ 

 inserted about at middle of the eye or very slightly below; third 

 joint linear, scarcely thrice as long as second in male and not reaching 

 the end of epistoma, in female longer and reaching end of epistoma; 

 arista distinctly pubescent, second joint short. Thorax a little rectan- 

 gular; three postsutural dorsocentrals and three præ- and three 



