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Tachinidae. 



Male. Frons above somewhat narrower than the eye, not much 

 protruding; orbits fully as broad as frontal stripe; cheeks much 

 narrowing downwards; jowls quite narrow. Orbits grey; cheeks 

 somewhat silvery; jowls grey; frontal stripe velvet black. Weak 



outer vertical bristles present. Frontal bristles 

 descending to end of second antennal joint, 

 the two uppermost reclinate. Vibrissæ a little 

 ascending. Orbits and jowls black-haired. 

 Occiput grey, with sparse whitish hairs and 

 black hairs behind postocular bristles. Eyes 

 somewhat sparingly pale-hairy. Antennæ 

 black, second joint not quite short, third 

 double as long as second or a little more; 

 arista short, distinctly thickened in a little 

 less than basal half, second joint distinct, 

 but not or only slightly elongated. Palpi 

 black. Thorax black, slightly shining, more or less greyish pruinose, 

 with four black stripes, two median, abbreviated behind, and two 

 broader lateral, interrupted at the suture; scutellum dark. Thorax 

 black-haired; four postsutural dorsocentrals. Scutellum with four 

 marginal bristles on each side, the apical crossing. Three sterno- 

 pleural bristles. Abdomen elongated conical, black and shining, 

 whitish pruinose on the front half of third, fourth and fifth segment, 

 shifting with dark according to view; the hinder half of the seg- 

 ments and a middle line black. Abdomen black-haired, the hairs 



Fig. 80. E. fimbriata ^ , 

 antenna. 



Fig. 81. Wing of E. fimbriata. 



somewhat strong and erect; there are discai and marginal bristles, 

 the latter as a rule a pair on second and third and a row on fourth 

 segment, the discai a pair on third and one or two pairs on fourth 

 segment. Legs black; hind tibiæ with an anterodorsal row of unequal 



