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Tachina lativitta, Mas. 



Flavo-fusca ; caput antice alhidum, .tubtits fulvtim ; antennce nigra: ; 

 abdomen testaceum, fusco vitlalum, suhius nigrum; pedes nigri ; alee 

 nigro-fuscce. 



Yelloivish-hrown : head taivny beneath ; face jvhitish ; epistoma very 

 prominent: feelers black; third joint rather deep, especially towards the 

 tip, nearly twice the length of the second : abdomen dark testaceous with 

 a broad broicn dorsal stripe, black beneath : legs black : icings very dark 

 broivn ; praebrachial vein much curved inward a little beyond its flexure 

 which forms a right angle ; lower cross-vein waved. Length of the body 

 6| lines ; of the wings IG lines. 



Tachina similis, Mas. 



Cinerea ,• caput antice et subtus fulvum, argentatum ; antennce nigne, 

 subttis et basi rufw ; thorax nigra quadrivittatus ; scutellum ferru- 

 gineum ; abdomen cinereo-piceum, addiscum nigricans ; pedes nigri ; 

 tibicE rufcB ; alee cinerecB. 



Cinereous, beset with stout black bristles : head broad, tawny and ivith a 

 silvery white covering in front and beneath, clothed beneath and behind 

 with white hairs; frontalia ferruginous, slightly widening from the eyelets 

 to the feelers, paler in the disk, blackish towards the eyelets : epistoma 

 prominent ; a few bristles on the crown and front ; facialia without bristles 

 along the face, with bristles on each side of the epistoma and of the 

 peristoma : mouth black, slender, ferruginous at the tip ; palpi tawny, very 

 slender: feelers pale red; third joint black, pale red beneath, very convex 

 above, straight beneath, conical towards the tip, much shorter tlian the 

 second joint, and nearly twice its depth ; orifice at one middle of the 

 length and at one-third of the height from the under side ; bristle black ; 

 fifth joint more than twice the length of the fourth, and about one-fourth 

 of the length of the sixth: chest with four black stripes; inner pair 

 slender; outer pair broader, interrupted: scutcheon ferruginous : abdomen 

 pitchy, obconical, tvith cinereous reflections, blackish on the disk, very little 

 longer than the chest : legs black ; trochanters and shanks red : unngs gray ; 

 veins black, (awny towards the base and along ihe fore border ; praebra- 



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