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Tachina austkalis, Mas. 



Nigra ; caput aiiratum, sublus canum ; thorax cancscens, nigro quadri- 

 mtiatus ; abdomen albo-micans, lateribus basi ferrugineum ; antenncE 

 hasi ferruginea; ; tibia posticce ciliatce ; ala cinerece, basi obscuriores. 



Faui. FaunidcB ; Gen. PhrgnoP Black: head with a gold-colour 

 covering, hoary beneath, clothed behind and beneath with pale yellow haii-s ; 

 facialia of the face without bristles ; epistonia not prominent: eyes bare : 

 mouth and palpi pitchy: feelers Mack ; first and second joints ferruginous ; 

 third linear, almost truncated at the tip, not reaching the epistoma, about 

 twice the length of the second joint : chest with a hoarg covering which is 

 interrupted bg four slender stripes ; scutcheon ferruginous : abdomen ivith 

 white reflections about the fore borders of the segments ; second and third 

 segments partly ferruginous on each side : legs black ; hind-shanks fringed : 

 loings gray, darker at the base ; veins black, pitchy towards the base and 

 along the fore border ; prEebrachial vein forming a hardly acute angle at 

 its flexure, slightly curved inward between this and its tip ; lower cross 

 vein with two equally slight curves, the lower inward, the other outward : 

 alulffi dingy white : halteres tawny. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the 

 wings 12 lines. 



New South Wales. 



Tachina squamata. 



Atra ; caput apud oculos auratuni ; thorax cervino quadrivittalus ; abdomen 

 fiisiforme, lateribus auratum ; pedes sat longi ; alec cinerete, vcnis 

 transversis basi et ad discum nigro marginalis. 



Mas. Deep black, narrow : head icith a pale gilded covering along the 

 eyes; frontalia widening from the eyelets to the feelers; facialia without 

 bristles except at the base ; epistoma not prominent : eyes bare : palpi 

 black: feelers black ; third joint straight above, slightly convex beneath, 

 not nearly reaching tlio'epistoma, more than twice the length of the second ; 

 sixth pubescent, stout towards the base, bare towards the tip, more than 

 twice the length of the third: chest with fiur fawn-coloured stripes : abdo- 

 men spindle-shaped, a little longer than the chest, uith pale gilded reflec- 

 tions on each side : legs rather long : wings gray ; \eins black ; middle 

 cross-vein and those towards the base clouded tcith black ; pro'brachial vein 



