270 INSECTA SATJNDERSIANA. 



chial vein forming at its flexure an acute angle, near which it is clouded 

 with brown, and much curved inward, straight from thence to the tip 

 which approaches very near the tip of the cubital vein ; lower cross-vein 

 with two curves, the lower inward, more shallow than the upper which is 

 outward; middle cross-vein clouded with brown: alulae white : halteres 

 tawny, with pitchy knobs. Length of the body 5^ lines ; of the wings 

 9i lines. 



South America. 



TaCHINA CALItOBNIiE, Mas. 



^nea, sericea ,• caput stramineum ; scutellum margino postico testa- 

 ceiim ; abdomen viridi-nigrum, apice rufum ; j)edes nigri ; alee 

 suhcinerece, hasi albidce. 



Head pale stratv-colour, clothed behind and beneath with yellow hairs ; 

 crown coppery-black ; frontalia ferruginous, testaceous and slightly widen- 

 ing towards the feelers ; mouth black, shining, ferruginous at the base and 

 at the tip ; palpi tawny, subclavate : feelers black ; first and second joints 

 tawny ; third joint very little shorter than the second, straight beneath, 

 very convex above, shallower towards the tip than at the base, its height 

 more than half its length ; orifice near the under side, a little nearer the 

 base than the tip ; fourth joint about half the length of the fifth which is 

 near one-fourth of the length of the sixth : chest brassy, partly silky ; 

 scutcheon testaceous along the hind border : abdomen greenish black, tip 

 red : legs black ; claws ferruginous with black tips ; onychia tawny : wings 

 pale gray, ivhitish at the base ; veins black, tawny at the base ; praebrachial 

 vein forming a slightly obtuse angle at its flexure, near which it is a little 

 bent inward, straight from thence to the tip ; lower cross-vein with two 

 very indistinct curves, the lower inward, the upper outward : alulas white, 

 with pale straw-colour borders : halteres tawny. liCngth of the body 

 5 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



California. ^ (^,jCweM^3 



. JIk^IA^ ^^^^■^''''i'achina divisa, Mas. 



Nigra ; caput album ; thorax cinerascens, nigro quadrivittalus ; scutel- 

 lum ferrugineum ; abdomen apice albido micans ; aUe cinerea;. 



Black : head tvith a bright white covering ; frontalia ferruginous, 

 broader and paler towards the feelers ; episloma prominent : eyes bare : 



