278 INSECTA SAUNDEESIANA. 



base, not reaching the epistoma ; fourth, fifth, and sixth tawny ; fourth and 

 fifth short ; sixth very stout, shorter than the third : abdomen almost hare, 

 broader and a little longer than the chest : wings gray, yellow towards the 

 base; veins tawny, black towards the tips ; proebrachial vein forming a right 

 angle at its flexure, near which it is bent inward, straight from thence to 

 the tip; lower cross- vein with the two curves which are very slight : alulae 

 yellow. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 11 lines. 



United States. 



Tachina gh.vndis. 



Nigra, cinerascens ; caput alhidum ; thorax antice riigro quadrivillatus ; 

 scutellum ferrugineum ; antennce nigrce, basi et subttis fxihcc ; pedes 

 nigri ; a/(B subcinerece, basi lutece, ad venas fusees. 



Fam. Microcerat(E ; Gen. Nemoro'a. Fem. Black, with a gray cover- 

 ing : head with a whitish covering, clothed behind and beneath with pale 

 yellow hairs : frontalia deep black, widening from the eyelets to the feelers ; 

 face tawny, with a silvery white covering; epistoma slightly prominent ; 

 lateralia deep red ; facialia of the face bristly along half the length from 

 the base : mouth pitchy ; palpi tawny : feelers tatvny ; third joint black 

 above, linear, darker towards the tip which is rounded, near twice the length 

 of the second joint; orifice a little before the middle of the length, very 

 near the under side ; bristle black ; fourth and fifth joints very short ; 

 sixth minutely pubescent: fore part of the shield with four black stripes ; 

 scutcheon ferruginous : legs black ; claws tawny with black tips ; onychia 

 yellow : wings pale gray, brown about the borders of the veins, luleous at the 

 base ; veins pitchy, Inteous at the base ; prsbrachial vein forming a slightly 

 acute angle at its flexure, near which it is curved inward, almost straight 

 from thence to the tip ; lower cross vein very indistinctly curved inward 

 near its base, distinctly curved outward near its tip : alulae with a pale 

 yellow tinge, their borders brighter : halteres yellow. Length of the body 

 7^ lines; of the wings 18 lines. 



East Indies. 



