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y. Pamponepus Low. 



Species of ]arge size and rather densely hairy, especially on the 

 abdomen. Face somewhat broad and widened downwards; epistomal 

 callus large, reaching near to the antennæ. Antennæ placed some- 

 what above the middle, Ihe hairs on the underside of the first joint 

 long. The facets on the front part of the eye almost not enlarged. 

 Dorsocentral bristles only on the hind part of thorax. The marginal 

 bristles on scutellum, and the long hairs on meta- and hypopleura 

 very weak. No bristles at the hind margins of the abdominal seg- 

 ments. Numerous spine-like brislles on the ventral side of the front 

 femora at the base, and also on the front side of the middle femora. 

 Male genitalia medium-sized, the arms of the upper forceps with a 

 large excision at the apex; the ventral lamella not shining. Tlie 

 female ovipositor small, conical, with free lamellæ. 



Of the genus only one palæarctic species is known, also occurring 

 in Denmark. 



1. P. germanicus L. 



1767. Linn. Syst. Nat. XII, ii, 1008, 12 (Asilus). — 1842. Zett. Dipt. 

 Scand. I, 166,2 et 1849. VIII, 2969,2 et 1855. XII, 4560,2 {Asilus). — 

 1849. Low, Linn. Entom. IV, 135,69. - 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 144 {Asilus). 

 - 1903. Kat. palaarkt. Dipt. II, 144. 



Male. Face yellowish below the antennæ and down the eye- 

 margin,the callus grey ; epistomal beard yellowish white to ferrugineous 

 yellow, black above. Palpi black with yellow hairs. Frons and vertex 

 black, slightly greyish pruinose, with black hairs. Occiput yellowish 

 grey pruinose, the occipito-orbital bristles black, the other hairs, both 

 above and below, whitish. Antennæ blackish, the base of the third 

 joint narrowly reddish; the two first joints black haired. Thorax 

 greyish brown, the stripes blackish brown; the middle stripe broad 

 in front and here cleft, narrow behind ; the side stripes relatively 

 small; between the middle and the side stripes a less distinct, narrow 

 stripe; a short humeral stripe; the disc is ash-grey behind. Thorax 

 clothed with short, erect, blackish hairs, longer and brownish behind; 

 the bristles are black, generally with paler ends. The scutellum ash- 

 grey with longish hairs and long marginal bristles. Pleura brownish 

 pruinose with sparse, long, yellowish hairs; the long hairs on meta- 

 and hypopleura yellowish. Abdomen black with a steel-bluish tinge, 

 somewhat shining; the hind margin of the segments somewhat brownish; 

 with the light from behind there are greyish pruinose lateral spots at 

 the hind margins of the second, third and fourth segments, the spots 

 are produced upwards somewhat band-like. Venter blackish, some- 



