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facialia with a row of bristles which do not extend much above the epi- 

 stoma ; feelers ferruginous ; third joint black, slightly convex above and 

 beneath, obliquely truncated at the lip, shorter and deeper than the second: 

 scutcheon taivny : tip of the abdomen clothed ivith orange hairs : legs tawny ; 

 thighs black : wings slightly gray, tawny at the base ; pra;brachial vein 

 forming a slightly acute angle at its flexure, near which it forms an obtuse 

 angle ; lower cross-vein very slightly waved : alulae dingy white. Length 

 of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 13 lines. 



East Indies. 



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Tachina vittata, Fem. 't ^ ''--'■- w > ., a-**^ 



Nigra; caput fulvescens ; thorax fuscescens ; scutellum et abdomen fer- 

 ruginea, hoc Jlavo vittatum et apice fasciatum ; alee fuscte, basi 

 subfulvce. 



Black : head with a tawny covering, thickly clothed behind and 

 beneath with pale yellow hairs; frontal region with two thin rows of 

 black bristles ; frontalia ferruginous ; interfroutalia indistinct ; iace 

 pale shining yellow ; each of the fac"ialia with a row of black bristles 

 not extending above the epistoraa, which is very prominent: feelers black ; 

 first and second joints ferruginous ; third nearly elliptical, very little 

 shorter and much deeper than the second -. chest with a brown cover- 

 ing : scutcheon and abdomen ferruginous, the tatter with a slender, pale 

 yellow, dorsal stripe, and near the tip with a broad pale yellow band : wings 

 brown, zoith a tawny tinge at the base ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; 

 praebrachial vein forming a right angle at its flexure, near which it forms an 

 obtuse angle ; lower cross-vein very slightly waved : alulae gray, with yel- 

 low borders. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines. 



Columbia. , 



Tachina atra, Mas. 



Nigra; caput albidum ; thorax canescens, nigro trivittatus ; antenna; 

 nigrce, basi et subtus ferruginea ; alee cinerece. 



Black : head with a tvhite coveiing, clothed beneath and behind with 

 whitish hairs ; crown gray ; frontalia ferruginous, widening from the eye- 

 lets to the feelers where they arc paler; epistoma very slightly prominent: 



