150 Orthonhapha brachycera. 



Length G,o— s niiii. 



This species canuot be confounded with any of the other Danish 

 species. It seems nearly related to splendidus Meig. Schiner says i. c: 

 „Stirne des Weibchens schwarz", al! the specirnens exaiuiiied by me 

 had a greyish front. 



C. auratus is common in Denmark in the low herbage in sonie- 

 what liumid, open piaces in woods and tiiickets, and it also occurs 

 in nieadows; Ermeiund, Bøllemosen, Furesø, Ørholm. Hillerød, Tids- 

 vilde, Boserup near Roskilde and Skelskør; Lolland at Maribo: Funen 

 at Faaborg and .Jutland at Silkeborg and at Dollerup and Hald near 

 Viborg. My dales are ^le—^^h. 



Geographical distribution : — Europe from middle Swedon down 

 into Italy. 



± C. nubecula Fali. 



1S14. Le/jtis, Fall. Dipt. Suuc. Anthrac. 13, 9. — 1842. Chrtjsopila . 

 Zett. Dipl. Scand. 1, 223, 2. — 1862. Chrysopila, Schin. F. A. I, 176. — 

 1903. Kat. |)alaaikt. Dipt. 11, 86. 



Male. Front and cheeks grey, epistoma greyish yellow; yowin 

 with yellow hairs. Antennæ yellowish, the apical joint and the arista 

 brownish black. Palpi yellow, the apex brown. Thorax greyish brown 

 or brown, with two approxiniate, indistinct, darker, longitudinal stripes: 

 the disc densely covered with depressed, pale golden hairs. The pleura 

 and sterna grey, somewhat reddish, metapleura with a small tuft of 

 yellow hairs. Scutellum greyish yellow with longish. yellow hairs. 

 Abdomen brown, the segments with broad yellow hind margins, these 

 being narrower towards the ajiex and the last two or three segments 

 entirely brown. Venter with the same colouring. Abdomen clothed 

 with somewhat longish, yellow hairs. Legs yellow ; the tarsi slightly 

 brownish towards the ends. The coxæ, especially the anterior, with 

 longish, yellow hairs, for the rest the legs are short haired, the femora 

 above with depressed golden hairs. The tibiæ iinely spinulous. The 

 wings slightly yellowish, somewhat iridescent, the veins yellowish 

 brown, a tuft of yellow hairs at the base of the costa. Tiie stigma 

 loug, brown, a distinct, broad, brownish band from it and down over 

 the outer end of the discai cell, also a fumigation along the lower 

 branch of the postical voin. Halteres yellow. the knob somewhat 

 darkened. 



Female. Front broad, brownish; scutellum yellow; the yellow 

 hind margins of the abdominal segments broadcr than in the male. 



Length 0,5—8,5 mm. 



C. nubecula is not common in Denmark; Ordrup Mose, Ermeiund. 



