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Earn. MUSCID^, Latr. 

 Subfam. Tachinides, Walk. 



Gren. Masicera, Macq. 



28. Masicera sarcophagata, n. s. Mas. Nigra, capite albo sub- 

 aurato, frontalibus atris, facie obliqua argentea, thorace cano vittis 

 quatuor nigris, abdomine tesseliis subauratis et pilis nonnullis apica- 

 Hbus ochraceis, alis cinereis, alulis albis. 



Male. Black. Head white, slightly gilded, with cinereous hairs behind 

 and beneath ; frontalia deep black, slightly widening in front ; face 

 oblique, silvery ; epistoma not prominent. Antennae nearly reaching 

 the epistoma ; 3rd joint linear, rounded at the tip, full four times the 

 length of the 2nd ; arista slender. Thorax bristly, with hoary tomeH- 

 tum, which is interrupted by four black stripes. Abdomen elongate- 

 oval, much longer than the thorax, tessellated with pale gilded tomen- 

 tum, with a few ochraceous apical hairs. Legs stout, bristly. Wings 

 cinereous ; veins black ; prsebrachial vein forming a right angle at its 

 flexure, near which it is slightly curved, and is thence straight to its 

 tip ; discal transverse vein curved inward, parted by less than its length 

 from the border and from the flexure of the prsbrachial vein ; alulae 

 white. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



Gen. EuTiLiA, Desv. 



29. Rutilia augustipennis. Walk. See Vol. IIL p. 101. 



Gen. Prosena, St. Farrj. 



30. Prosena secedens, n. s. Fcem. Cana, capite albido, frontalibus 

 obscure rufis, antennis luteis, thorace vittis qviatuor nigris, abdomine 

 fasciis tribus latis atris, alis fuscescentibus apud costam obscurioribus, 

 alulis albido-cinereis, halteribus fulvis. 



Female. Hoary, stout. Head whitish, shining; frontalia dark red, 

 widening in front. Proboscis tawny, black towards the tip. An- 

 tenna; luteous, not reaching the epistoma, which is prominent. Tho- 

 rax with four slender black stripes. Abdomen oval, a little longer 

 than the thorax, with three broad deep-black bands, of which the 1 st 

 is basal; some long spines towards the tip. Legs rather long. Wings 

 brownish, darkest towards the Costa; veins black; praebrachial vein 

 emitting an extremely short branch at its flexure, which is acutely 

 rectangular, very slightly curved thence to its tip ; discal transverse 

 vein slightly undulating, parted by nearly half its length from the 

 border, and by much more than half its length from the flexure of the 

 prsebrachial vein ; alula; whitish cinereous ; halteres tawny. Length 

 of the body 5 lines; of the wings 9 lines. 



31. Prosena coacta, n. s. Foem. Nigra, cano tomentosa, capite 

 albo, frontalibus ferrugineis, antennis fulvis, thorace vittis quatuor ni- 



