28'2 INSECTA SAUNDEESIANA." 



Tachina lucifeba. 



Nigra ; caput argenteum ; thorax albidus, nigro quadrivittatus ; abdominis 

 segmenta alho fasciata ; alee subcinerece, basi etad costam obscuriores. 



Fam. Faunidw. Allied to Lydella. Fern. Black : head with a 

 silvery covering, clothed beneath and behind with white hairs ; fiontalia 

 deep black, uarrovv, slightly widening towards the feelers, beset along each 

 side with black bristles ; facialia without bristles; epistoma not prominent : 

 eyes bare: palpi tawny: feelers black ; third joint linear, rounded at the 

 tip, nearly reaching the epistoma, not deeper than the second and less than 

 twice its length ; sixth slender, minutely pubescent, very much longer than 

 the third : chest with a whitish covering which is interrupted by four black 

 stripes : abdomen obconical, not longer than the chest, ivith a white band 

 on the fore border of each segment : wings slightly gray, darker at the base 

 and along the fore border ; veins black ; praebrachial vein forming a right 

 angle at its flexure, curved inward from thence to the tip : lower cross-vein 

 almost straight : alidae while. Length of the body 3| lines ; of the wings 

 7 lines. 



Tachina ornata. 



Atra ; caput argenteum ; thorax albo quadrivittatus et quadrimaculatus ; 

 abdomen albo tessellalum, lateribus et sublus fulvurn ; ahe subcinerece. 



Fam. FaunidcB. Fern. Deep black : head with a silvery ivhite 

 covering, with two large, black spots on each side, thickly clothed behind 

 and beneath with while hairs ; frontalia deep pitchy black, slightly widen- 

 ing towards the feelers ; facialia of the face without bristles except at the 

 base: epistoma white, not prominent: eyes hairy: mouth pitchy, partly 

 ferruginous ; palpi black, long, very slender : feelers black, third joint 

 rather deep, almost truncated at the lip, nearly reaching the epistoma, less 

 than twice the length of the second ; fifth joint full twice the length of 

 the fourth ; sixth long, slender, bare : fore part of the chest adorned on each 

 side ivith two white stripes which are united behind by a white band ; four 

 ivhite oblong spots on the hind part of the shield ; tip of the scutcheon, sides 

 and breast ivhite : abdomen obconical, tessellated ivith white, taivny along 

 each side, a little longer than the chest ; under side tawny with a black 



