276 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



the length ; fourth joint a little shorter than the fifth which is not more 

 than one-sixth of the sixth : chest tinged with gray ; scutcheon dull tawny : 

 abdomen tessellated tvith hoary and black ; tip red: legs black: wings slightly 

 gray ; veins pitchy, ferruginous towards the base and along the fore border ; 

 praebrachial vein forming a slightly acute angle at its flexure, near which it 

 is much bent inward ; lower cross-veins with two curves, the lower inward, 

 much less distinct than the upper which is outward : alulae white : halteres 

 tawny. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



Tachina fulva, Mas, 



Testucea ; caput Jlavum; scutellum fulvum ; abdomen piceum, segmentis 

 fulvo fasciafis ; antennce picecB ; pedes fulvi, femoribus nigris ; alee 

 subcinerete, basi et ad costam fulvm. 



Head and thorax with a testaceous covering : head pale yellow and 

 thickly clothed with yellow hairs beneath ; face and epistoma whitish, 

 shining : proboscis black with a ferruginous lip : palpi pale tawny, very 

 slender : feelers pitchy ; third joint very convex above and beneath, almost 

 truncated at the tip, much shorter than the second and about twice its 

 depth ; fourth, fifth and sixth tawny : scutellum tawny : abdomen pitchy, 

 U'ith a broad, bright, tawny band on the fore border of each segment; a few 

 black spines on each hind border: legs taivny ; thighs black, with a testa- 

 ceous covering : ivings pale gray, with a taivny tinge at the base and along 

 part of the fore border ; praebrachial vein forming a right angle at its 

 flexure ; lower cross-vein slightly waved : alulae whitish with yellow bor- 

 ders. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 12^ lines. 



East Indies. 



Tachina convecta. 



Canescens ; thorax nigra quadrivittatus ; pedes nigri ; alee limpidee. 



Black, with a hoary covering, beset with bristles : frontalia pitchy, 

 slightly widening from the eyelets to the feelers ; facialia of the face with- 

 out bristles ; epistoma not prominent: third joint of the feelers aboiitfour 

 times the length of the second, divided into tivo parts which are equal in 

 length, slightly ctirved, and converge towards each other at their tips ; fifth 



