176 Tachinidae. 



jowls grey; frontal stripe black. No distinct outer vertical bristles. 

 Bristles on cheeks small. Jowls black-haired. Occiput grey with 

 black hairs and yellowisli hairs centrally and below. Third antennal 

 joint somewhat broad, twice as long as second, reaching the lower 

 end of the eye. Palpi black. Thorax grey pruinose, tlie lateral stripes 

 hroader than the middle stripe; three postsutural dorsocentrals; 

 a pair of præscutellar acrostichals. Scutellum with crossing apical 

 bristles. Abdomen whitish grey, dark tessellated; third segment 

 Avithout marginal bristles; all sternites with erect hairs. Fifth sternite 



Fig. 41. Penis with posterior 

 Fig. 40. S. laciniata. claspers from behind. 



with a brush and marginal bristles. Præhypopygial segment grey 

 pruinose, with strong marginal bristles. Hypopygium black, densely 

 hairy ; upper f orceps cleft to above middle, evenly curved and atten- 

 uated, and sharply pointed; lower forceps reddish; anterior claspers 

 ■considerably longer than posterior, curved ventrally, thinner in 

 apical half, obtuse, posterior claspers curved ventrally, hooked and 

 pointed. Penis with the end part broad and somewhat swoln, of 

 brownish colour, the end not bent forwards; seen from behind it is 

 triangularly rounded; on the ventral side there are complicated 

 appendages and the upper lobes are long, somewhat spatula-like and 

 curved backwards, chitinised. Posterior femora long-fringed ven- 

 trally, hind tibiæ likewise on postero- and anteroventral sides, but 

 not just densely; middle femora with a comb of not short, somewhat 

 distant bristles; hind femora with not strong anteroventral bristles 

 in apical half or more. Wings a little tinged; costal segment 3 a little 

 longer than 5; subcostal vein bare; a not strong costal spine. 



Female. I have not seen the female; according to Bottcher it 

 has the frons about three fifths as broad as the eye. The genital 

 split with marginal bristles. 



