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Tachinidae. 



Fig. 104. Head of E. vivida. S • 



half the height of the eye. Orbits, 

 cheeks and epistoma pale yellowish, 

 but the orbits dark reflecting; jowls 

 grey; frontal stripe blackish. Frontal 

 bristles reaching below insertion of 

 antennæ. Orbits black-haired; jowh 

 with longer black hairs. Occiput dark 

 grey, yellowish below along the eye- 

 margin, with pale yellow hairs and 

 rows of black hairs behind postocular 

 bristles. Eyes pale-haired. Antennæ 

 black, second joint not as long as 

 third, the latter somewhajt dilated 

 outwards, rounded at end; arista 

 thickened in about basal half, second 

 joint short. Palpi yellow, a little 

 darkened at base. Thorax bluish 

 black, somewhat shining, whitish grey pruinose anteriorly and here 

 with the beginning of four black stripes, the middle approximate; 

 sciitellum more or less reddish or quite 

 dark. Thorax black-haired; three post- 

 sutural dorsocentrals and two præ- and 

 three postsutural acrostichals. Scu- 

 tellum with four marginal bristles on 

 each side, the apical pair the smaller, 

 Crossing. Abdomen bluish black, some- 

 what shining, sometimes a little reddish 

 at the sides; at front margin of third, 

 fourth and fifth segment it is very 

 slightly whitish pruinose; it is black- 

 haired, with a pair of discai and mar- 

 ginal bristles on third and fourth seg- 

 ment; fifth segment with two rows. 

 Fifth sternite roundly incised to near 

 middle, with the corners drawn a little 

 out. Genitalia not small; præhypopygial 

 segment with dense, somewhat long 



hairs; hypopygium with some bristly hairs, rather shining. Upper 

 forceps forming a backwards curved, pointed style, at the base it 

 is broad and wing-like dilated to each side, and here armed in the 



Fig. 105. E. vivida, lower forceps 

 with the scale-like piece, and 

 the tooth at base of upper 

 forceps; apical part of upper 

 forceps hidden. 



