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black; first and second joints red; third slender, linear, rounded at the 

 tip, less than thrice the length of the second ; sixth very much longer than 

 the third, stout towards the base : chest and breast with a gray covering ; 

 scutcheon ferruginous : ahdoinen obconical, ivith gray reflections, a little 

 broader but not longer than the chest, ferruginous beneath towards the base : 

 legs ferruginous ; feet black : wings pale gray, veins black, tawny towards 

 the base ; prsebrachial vein forming a hardly obtuse angle, beyond which it 

 is very slightly bent inward at its flexure; lower cross-vein slightly bent 

 inward at one-third of its length from the base : alulte while : halleres 

 tawny. Length of the body 4^ lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



New South Wales. 



Tachina hebes. 



Nigra; caput albidum, antice ferrttgineum ; thorax canus, nigra quadri- 

 vittatus ; scutellumferrugineuin; abdomen albo tesscllatum ; antemue 

 basi ferruginece ; tibiie ferruginecB ; alee subcinerecB, ba^ifulvce. 



Fam. FaunidcE ; Gen. Phryno. Fern. Black: head with a ivhitish 

 covering, clothed behind and beneath with whitish hairs, ferruginous in 

 front ; frontalia pitchy, slightly widening towards the feelers ; facialia and 

 epistoma tawny, the latter slightly prominent ; facialia of the face beset 

 with bristles along one-fourth of the length from the base : eyes hairy : 

 mouth pitchy ; palpi tawny: feelers black; fust and second joints fermgi- 

 nous ; third linear, almost truncated at the tip, reaching the epistoma, near 

 thrice the length of the second : chest with a hoary covering ichich is inler- 

 I'upted by four black stripes; scutcheon ferruginous : abdomen tessellated 

 with tvhite : legs black ; shanks ferruginous : icings very slightly gray, with 

 a taivny tinge at the base ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; pra;bra- 

 chial vein forming a hardly obtuse angle at its flexure, beyond which it is 

 very slightly curved inward; lower cross-vein much curved inward: alulae 

 white: halteres tawny. Length of the body 4^ lines; of the wings 8i 

 lines. 



Tasmania. 



