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Tachina peoxima, Mas 



Nigra; caput ferrugineum ; scutellum piceum ; pecttis cinereum; abdo- 

 men laterihus basi piceum, apice cinereo et alhido fasciatum ; an- 

 tenna; picete, hasi ferruginece ; ala fuscce, basi f err uginece. 



Black : head ferruginous ; fronlalia pitchy ; face whitish tawny ; feelers 

 pitchy ; first and second joints ferruginous ; third full four times the length 

 of the second : chest quite black ,• scutcheon pitchy : breast gray : abdomen 

 pitchy on each side towards the base, with two bands near the lip ; first 

 slender and gray ; second broad and whitish : wings brown, lurid towards 

 the base which is feiTuginous ; lower cross-vein slightly waved. Length 

 of the body 5i lines ; of the wings 13 lines. 



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Tachina tincta. J -^^-^.-ytn-tre^-^ t>^ 4 ^^^<A-«i/^i^ I 



Nigra; caput auralum ; thorax albus nigra quadrivittatus ; abdomen 

 cano-micans, apice auratum ; ahe cinerete. 



Fern. Black : head with a bright gilded covering ; frontalia deep black, 

 linear : face white ; facialia beset with bristles along the whole length ; 

 epistoraa not prominent : eyes hairy : palpi black : feelers black ; third 

 joint slender, linear, rounded at the tip, almost reaching the epistunia, full 

 four limes the length of the second ; sixth bare, slender, rather .stout, very 

 much longer than the third : chest ivith a white covering, which is inter- 

 rupted by four black stripes : abdomen obconical, suff'used with hoary re- 

 flections ; tip gilded: legs black: tvings gray; veins black; prtcbrachial 

 vein forming a very slightly obtuse angle at its flexure, near which it is 

 slightly bent inward, straight from thence to the tip ; lower cross-vein 

 slightly bent inward near the base: alulae dingy white. Length of ihe 

 body 6 lines; of the wings 10 lines. 



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