274 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



eyes bare : palpi tawny : feelers ferruginous ; third joint blacliisb and 

 convex above, a little longer than the second ; fourth, fifth and sixth black ; 

 fifth about twice the length of the fourth : chest ivith a hoary covering, 

 which is interrupted by three slender black stripes : abdomen armed with 

 black spines : wings gray ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; praebra- 

 chial vein foraiing a right angle at its flexure, curved slightly inward near 

 the flexure, straight from thence to the tip ; lower cross-vein almost straight, 

 the curves being veiy indistinct: alula3 white. Length of the body 5 

 lines; of the wings 10 lines. :? 

 Georgia. 



Tachina transversa. 



Testacea ; scutum auratum, nigro 4-vittalum ; abdomen apice nigrum ; 

 antenncB nigra hasi ferruginea ; pedes fulvi ; alee fusco-cinerea . 



Mas. Testaceous : head with a whitish covering, clothed behind and 

 beneath with yellow hairs ; frontalia pale ferruginous, widening much from 

 the eyelets to the feelers ; epistwma not prominent : eyes bare : feelers fer- 

 ruginous; thirJ and following joints black ; third ferruginous at the base : 

 shield black, with a gilded covering, which is interrupted by four black 

 stripes : abdomen black towards the tip, armed with black spines : legs 

 tawny : wings brownish gray ; veins black, tawny at the base ; prsebrachial 

 vein forming a slightly acute angle at its flexure, and near this an obtuse 

 angle, straight from thence to the tip ; lower cross-vein with the two usual 

 curves which are very slight: alulae pale grayish tawny. Length of the 

 body 4| — bh, lines ; of the wings 10 — 12 lines. 



Brazil. 



Tachina obtusa, Mas et Fern. • 



Testacea ; caput flavum ; thoracis discus cinereus ,■ abdomen nigro vitta- 

 tuni ; antennce picece, basi et stibtus ftdvce ; ala cinerece, basifulva;. 



Testaceous : head yellow, thickly clothed beneath with pale yellow 

 hairs ; front region tawny •, front thinly beset with bristles ; interfrontalia 

 indistinct ; facialia without bristles till near the epistoma, which is promi- 

 nent ; lateralia thinly clothed with pale yellow hairs : feelers bright taumy ; 

 third joint pitchy, tawny beneath, very convex above, a little shorter than 



