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P'ig. lOe. Abdominal tip of Tachinus bipustulatus Fabr. 

 (5* and O . 



Distributea in Liiadle-Liurope ana in southern Sweden; very recent- 

 ly discovered in Lenmark and found in numbers at Horsens, Vejle, and 

 Varde in Cossus -burrow and gnav.-crumbles on infected poplar and oak. 

 It favours outflowing treesap. 



7. T. rufipes De ^reer. 



(De areer Ins. IV, 24; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 397; Jen. Spec. 

 Staph. 254; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 402; Thoms. Skand. Col. Ill, 156;Rey 

 Br^vip. 1883, 145; .Janglb. Kaf. I.i. II, 343). 



Kasily identified by the color, and a proportionally broad pro- 

 notum. (Fig. 101). 



Black, shiny; the humeral corners of elytra and distal back- 

 margin occasionally brownish-red; antennal base, mouth-parts, and 

 legs reddish-yellow or clear brov.nish-red. 



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Head and pronctum with particularly fine, open punctation, and 

 the surface very finely transversely-aciculate; antennae slender, 

 their next-last joints longer than broad; pronotum proportionally 

 large, and especially that of c?" very distinctly broader than elyt- 

 ra, with strongly rounded sides, rather convex; elytra 1^ times as 

 long as pronotum, these as well as abdomen more dense and distinct- 

 ly punctate than pronotum; abdomen tapering, its three first free 

 dorsal joints with two small hair-spots on middle, and the fifth 

 with an outstanding bristle on sides. L. 5-7 mai. 



Fig. 1C7. Abdominal tip of Tachinus rufipes Ee Freer. 5* a.niQ 



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