26 Orlliorrhaplia lnachycera. 



Female. Front and face broad and the snoiit long, the antennæ 

 inserted near to the point ; front without white spots, but instead with 

 an obliiiiie impression on each side, black, greyish white haired. Eyes 

 long, longer than high and the whole head rather long. Abdomen 

 black with a broad white triangle at the hind margins of the second, 

 third and fourth segment, the last often very small, the hind margin 

 of the fiflh segment and all the .side margins white. Venter black, 

 sometimes with pale incisures of which that on the first segment mav 

 form a pale spot. 



Length 4,5—5,6 mm. 



The larva is brownish or greyish red with some darker longitud- 

 inal lines on the dorsal surface of tho segments, especially a some- 

 what broad line is seen, running from the end to the hind margin of 

 the first abdominal or the third thoracic segment and then dividing 

 in two lines, running to the head. It has a length of 10 mm. 



N. pantherius is not rare here in humid localities and near water; 

 vicinity of Copenhagen, Damhusmosen, Utterslev Mose, Ordrup Mose, 

 Bøllemosen, Furesø, Donse and at Boserup and Lejre near Roskilde; 

 on Funen at Odense; on Lolland at Nørresø near Maribo; in Jutland 

 at Horsens and on Bornholm at Hasle and Allinge. It has been 

 taken from -'is—^k. The larvæ have been taken in Damhusmosen and 

 Utterslev Mose on ^"'a and --U, and pupæ from "^^' « — ''.7. 



Geographical distribution : — Distributed and common in northern 

 and middle Europe, in north to niiddle Sweden and in south to the 

 Southern parts of niiddle Furope. 



2. N. uliginosus. 



17G7. Musca, Linn. Syst. Nat. Ed. XII, 982. 22. — 1842. Zelt. Dipt. 

 Scand. I, 146, 1. — 1846. Loew. Linn. Entom. L '132, 4. — 1862. Schin. 

 F. A. I, 5 el 6. — 1903. Kat. palaaikt. Dipt. Il, 9. 



Male. Snout moderalely long, somewhat hollowed above with 

 the poiut distinctly bent down. Antennæ brownish black or black, 



c? Q 



Fig. 9. Head ol" X nliyinosus male and female. 



inserted nearer to the base than in pnntherinus. Eyes nearly round. 

 dark greenish, slightly metallic, unicolorous; Ihey are bare, but the 

 eye-suiure is finely hairy. Front above the antennæ white. the white 



