92 Syrphidae. 



P. lugubris is not rare in Denmark; Ordrup Mose, Ermelund, 

 Dyrehaven, Hillerød; on Funen, and in Jutland at Horsens and Laven 

 near Silkeborg. My dates are -^/t— ^Vs. It occurs on low piants on 

 meadows and in v^^oods. In contradistinction to what is the case with 

 noctiluca the males seem here to be the most common. 



Geographieal distribution : — Europe down into Italy, towards the 

 north to northern Sweden, and in Finland, 



8. P. austriaca Meig. 



1822. Meig. Syst. Beschr. 111, 252, 23. — 1840. Loew, Programm 

 Posen, 29, 7. — 1885. Kow. Wien. ent. Zeitg. IV, 242. — "i P. lugubris 

 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 263. 



Male. Vertex, frons and epistoma bluish black, the tvvo latter 

 somewhat greyish pruinose; vertex pale-haired with some few darker 

 hairs at the apex; frons black-haired with a few pale hairs intermingled, 

 epistoma white-haired. Occiput black, greyish pruinose, white-haired, 

 at the upper eye-margin a row of distinct, black hairs. Antennæ 

 short, black, the third joint not at all longer than broad ; arista about 

 as long as the antennæ, thickened in more than the basal half. Eyes 



Fig. 30. Hind femur of P. austriaca cf. X 20. 



densely dark brown-hairy. Thorax black, densely but not coarsely 

 punctate, shining; it is densely clothed with medium long, white hairs, 

 long on scutellum, especially at the margin. Pleura mainly white- 

 haired, only just in front of the wing-root some darker hairs. Ab- 

 domen black, coarsely and densely punctate, almost not shining; it is 

 clothed with short, black hairs, in the middle of the third and fourth 

 segments there is a transverse band of white hairs, interrupted in the 

 middle; the white hairs are a little longer than the black; also on 

 the second segment there is a less defmed band of longer, white 

 hairs; at the sides the hairs are likewise somewhat long and almost 



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