DIPTERA. J271 



mouth black; palpi tawny: feelers ferruginous ; third and following joints 

 black ; third black and verj' convex above, hardly shorter than the second : 

 chest and breast uith a cinereous covering ; chest with four very slender black 

 stripes; scutcheon ferruginous : abdomen deep black, jvith whitish reflec- 

 tions on each side of the tip : thighs with a hoary tinge beneath : wings 

 gray; veins black; praebrachial vein forming a very slightly acute angle 

 at its flexure, near which it is much curved inward, straight from thence to 

 the tip ; lower cross-vein almost straight, but very slightly curved outward 

 near the tip : alulae white. Length of the body 4^ lines ; of the wings 

 9 lines. 



Para. 



Tachina bomboides, Mas. 



Carta ; caput antice et subtus albidum ; abdomen apice luteo-hirtum ; 

 pedes ferruginei, femoribus nigris ; ahe cincrece, basi nigricantes. 



Hoary, clothed with whitish hairs: head whitish in front and beneath, 

 with a very shallow slightly striated furrow which widens from the eyelets 

 to the base of the feelers ; peristoma pale yellow on the inside ; proboscis 

 black, ferriTginous towards the lip ; palpi slender, tawny : feelers black ; 

 first and second joints pitchy; third shorter and much deeper than the 

 second, very slightly convex above and below, rounded at the tip : abdo- 

 men covered vnth black hairs and spines, and towards the tip with bright 

 orange hairs : legs ferruginous ; thighs black : icings gray, blackish at the base; 

 pra;brachial vein forming a hardly acute angle at its flexure, and a very 

 obtuse angle nearer its tip ; lower cross-vein straight except at the upper 

 end : alulae white. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



East Indies. 



Tachina nitida, Mas. 



Nigra, cinerascens ; caput antice argenteum ; abdomen rufum, nigra vit- 

 tatum ; tibite rufe ; alee cinerecc, basi albidte. 



Black : head gray above, thickly clothed with whitish hairs behind 

 and beneath ; front region beset with a few stout bristles ; frontalia broad, 

 pitchy, very slightly concave ; inlerfrontalia indistinct ; face silve7-y white ; 

 facialia with a row of bristles which do not extend above the episloma ; 



