272 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



antennaria ferruginous : proboscis black, tip ferruginous : palpi black with 

 tawny tips : feelers black ; tbird joint almost flat above, convex beneath, 

 almost truncated at the tip, shorter and much deeper than the second : 

 chest with a very slight gray covering : abdomen very shining, dark red, 

 ,V>ith a black dorsal stripe which does not reach the tip : shanks dark red : 

 wings gray, whitish at the base : alulaj white ; praebrachial vein forming au 

 obtuse angle at its flexure, near which it is very slightly curved inward ; 

 lower cross-vein very slightly undulating. Length of the body 7 lines ; of 

 the wings 14 lines. 



East Indies. 



Tachina sobria, Mas. d-^-^^AA^^ 



Fulva ; thorax glauciis ; abdomen ferrugineum,vittatum, segmentis postice 

 fulvis ; femora nigra ; alw subcinerecB. 



Head and chest with a tawny covering : head thinly beset above with 

 black bristles, thickly clothed beneath with pale yellow hairs ; frontalia 

 ferruginous; interfrontalia indistinct; face silvery white; facialia with a 

 row of bristles which do not extend above the epistoma : proboscis pitchy : 

 palpi tawny, very slender, rather short: feelers black; third joint deep, 

 straight above, convex beneath, truncated at the tip, much shorter than 

 the second joint and about twice its depth : chest glaucous ; scutcheon 

 tawny : abdomen ferruginous with a broad dorsal stripe ; hind borders of 

 the segments tawny : legs tawny; thighs black: wings slightly gray ; prae- 

 brachial vein forming a right angle at its flexure and an obtuse angle 

 nearer its tip : lower cross-vein undulating : alulae pale gray, with tawny 

 borders. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



East Indies. 



Tachina subcinerea, Mas. 



Glauca, cinereo-fulvo tecta ; scutellum fulvum ; abdomen apice luteo hir- 

 tum ; pedes fulvi, femorihus nigris ; aim subcinerece, basi fulva. 



Slightly glaucous, with a grayish tawny covering, clothed with tawny 

 hairs : head gray above and beset with black hairs and bristles, thickly 

 clothed behind and beneath with pale yellow hairs ; frontalia dark ferru- 

 ginous, of equal breadth ; interfrontalia indistinct ; face pale yellow ; 



