980 INSECTA SAUNDEESIANA. 



forming a hardly acute angle at its flexure, near wLich it is much bent 

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

 two usual curves which are slight : alula) yellow, large. Length of the 

 body 5 lines ; of the wings 11 lines. 



Columbia. 



Tachina concisa. 



Atra ; caput album ; thorax albido quadrivittatus ; scutellum apice alhi- 

 dum ; abdomen albido mica7is, lateribus et apice luteum ; alcB sub- 

 cinerecB. 



Fem. Deep black : head with a white covering, clothed beneath and 

 behind with white hairs ; a broad, black band on the crown, and a black 

 spot on each side of the face ; frontalia broad, linear, pitchy, ferruginous 

 towards the feelers ; facialia without bristles : palpi and feelers black : 

 shield ivith a hoary disk, and with four short tvhiiish stripes in front, each 

 pair connected behind by a band : scutcheon whitish towards the tip : abdo- 

 men ivith whitish reflections, luteous on each side and at the tip : thighs 

 tinged with white : tvings slightly gray; veins black, tawny towards the 

 base ; praebrachial vein forming a right angle at its flexure, curved inward 

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

 the two usual curves, the upper one more distinct than the lower : alulae 

 large, yellow, with white disks. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 

 7 lines. 



Cape. 



Tachina kemota. 



Nigra; caput albidum ; thorax cinereus,nigro quinquevittatus ; scutellum 

 ferrugineum ; abdomen lateribus basi rufum; antennce basi et subtus 

 ferruginecE ; alee subcinerece. 



Fam. Faunidce ; Gen. Phry no P Black: head with a tchite covering, 

 clothed beneath and behind with white hairs ; crown gray ; frontalia dark 

 ferruginous, almost linear; facialia of the face ferruginous, beset with 

 bristles along half the length from the base ; epistoma pale yellow, very 

 slightly prominent: eyes hairy: palpi tawny: feelers black; first and 

 second joints ferruginous ; third ferruginous beneath at the base, almost 

 linear, truncated at the lip, a little deeper than the second and much more 



