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 Pronotum pitch-black viith brownish-yellow/ margins, more finely 



punctated 13, 



1'6. Pronotum large, broader than elytra, L. 4-4.5 mm 



11. T. laticollis Gravh . 



Pronotum not broader than elytra. L.4-4.5 run.. 12. T. marginellus F. 



1. Subgenus Tachinus s. str. 



1. T. flavipes Fabr. 



(Fabr. Syst. Ent. 268; firichs. Kaf. Mk. Dr. 1, 398; 3en. Spec. 

 Staph. 255; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 403; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 168; 

 Eey Brevip. 1883, 127; Janglb. Kaf. M. II, 340). 



Identifiable by the color of antennae and alytra, but particu- 

 larly by the many outstanding marginal bristles of abdomen, and the 

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Black, shiny; elytra reddieh-brov-n with a more or less develop- 

 ed black reflection; sides and hind-margin of pronotum oftenest nar- 

 rowly, occasionally broader obliterated brownish-yellow or reddish- 

 brown; antennae pitch-black, but the three-four first joints at base, 

 as well as mouth-parts and legs brownish-red. 



Head and pronotum are very fine ana densely punctated, the surf- 

 ace particularly finely aciculated; antennae slender, their next- 

 last joint feebly oblique; pronotum rather lov. convex, at base about 

 as broad as elytra, these about li times as long as pronotum, and a 

 little more distinctly punctate than sa&ie, the surface very finely 

 reticulate-aciculated; abdomen tapering, very fine and densely punct- 

 ate, each of its three first free dorsal joints with two short, 



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