288 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



Tachina imbuta, Mas. 



Cervina ; caput argenteo-auratum ; thorax nigro quinquevittalus ; pectus 

 cinereum ; abdomen nigro vitlatum, segmentis nigra fasciatis ; an- 

 tenna: nigrce, basi ferruginecB ; tibim ferruginece ; ahc subcinerece. 



Fam. Faunidce; Gen. P/irgno. Darkfaum~colour,c\o\.heivf\t\ih\ack 

 hairs and bristles : head pale gold-colour, clothed behind and beneath with 

 pale yellow hairs ; frontalia deep black ; front beset with long black 

 bristles ; posterior region with a friuge of short black bristles ; face tawny ; 

 foveae and sides silvery white ; facialia without bristles except near the epi- 

 stoma : eyes hairy, with small facets: mouth ferruginous; palpi tawny: 

 feelers black ; first and second joints ferruginous ; third tinged with gray, 

 linear, rather deep, slightly rounded at the tip, extending to the epistoma, 

 about six time's the length of the second, with an orifice on the outer side 

 near the lower border at two-thirds of the length ; fourth and fifth very 

 short ; sixth stout towards the base, less than twice the length of the third : 

 chest tvith five slender black stripes : breast gray: abdomen obconical, very 

 little longer than the chest, with a black middle stripe, and with a black 

 band on the hind border of each segment : legs black, tinged with gray ; 

 shanks ferruginous : wings slightly grag, rather darker at the base ; veins 

 black, fei^ruginoxis at the base ; preebrachial vein slightly curved inward, 

 rounded and forming an almost right angle at the flexure from thence to 

 the tip ; lower cross-vein with two slight curves, the lower inward, the 

 upper outward : alulse whitish, with pale buff borders. Length of the body 

 41 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



Cape. 



Tachina densa. 



Nigra,' caput canum; thorax cinereus ; scutelluni ferrugineum ; abdomen 

 cinereo-mieans, basi subtvs ferrugineum ; antenna basi rufm ; pedes 

 ferrugineiy tarsis nigris ; ahe subcinerece. 



Fam. Faunida. Fern. Black, thick : head with a hoary covering; 

 frontalia deep black, linear ; facialia tawny, without bristles except at the 

 base ; epistoma yellow, hardly prominent : eyes hairy : palpi tawny : feelers 



