Ormosia danica n. sp. 
By 
Peder Nielsen, Silkeborg. 
Ormosia danica n. sp. General coloration dark brown. Head 
dark grey. Rostrum dark greyish brown with yellowish setae. 
Palpi dark brown, hairy, Antennae dark brown, elongate; the joints 
of the flagellum are cylin- 
drical and clothed with 
whitish hairs. Thorax dark 
greyish brown; no long¬ 
itudinal stripes present. 
Pronotum pale yellow. Scu- 
tellum dark brown with yel- 
Wing of O, danica n. sp. 
lowish hairs. Abdomen black brown, somewhat hairy. Hypopy- 
gium pale brown, hairy. The pleurae black greyish brown. Be- 
hind the wingroot a tuft of yellowish hairs. Halteres pale yel¬ 
lowish brown. Coxae and trochanters yellowish brown; legs dark 
brown, femora yellowish brown at their base, in the hindlegs only 
the tip of femora is dark brown. Wings somewhat brownish tinged, 
and with a distinet darker brown stigma; veins dark brown. Sc 2 
at the level of the middle of r beyond, but near the fork of 
/?2+3, R -2 and R ‘2 not parallel but divergent at the margin. Dis¬ 
cal cell (cell Ist Mz) closed, basal deflection of Cui (m-cu) close to 
the fork of M\ 2Å short. Length of the wing 6 mm. 
The species seems to be closely allied to O. holtedahli, recently 
described from Novaya Zemlya by C* P. Alexander (Rep. Sc. 
Results of the Norweg. Exp. to Nov. Zeml. 1921. Nr. 5 p. 4. Kria. 
1922). Although only the female sex is known of O. holtedahli, 
I have had no hesitation in regarding the Danish specimen as be- 
