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wings almost colourless, gray at the hase ; veins black ; prffibrachial vein 

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

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

 with two very slight curves, the lower inward, somewhat deeper than the 

 other which is very indistinct: alulae gray with lurid borders: halleres 

 ferruginous. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines. 



Madras or Bombay. 



Tachina umbbosa. 



Cinerea; thorax nigro quadrivittatus ; scutellum fulvum ; abdomen cano- 

 picewn ; antennce nigrce, basi ferruginea ; tibice tarsique nigra; alee 

 cinerea:, basi subfuscce. 



Fam. FaunidcB ; Gen. Eurigaster. Allied to T. nigricornis, Wied. 

 Gray : head clothed behind and beneath with whitish hairs : frontal 

 region with a tawny covering, and with a few black bristles on each side ; 

 frontalia pitchy ; face gilded ; foveas white ; facialia without bristles ; 

 mediana ferruginous ; lateralia gray, with black hairs : proboscis and 

 palpi pitchy: feelers black; first and second joints ferruginous; third 

 linear, almost truncated at the tip, as deep as the second and near thrice 

 its length : chest with four indistinct slender black stripes ; scutcheon 

 tawny : abdomen beneath and thighs somewhat pitchy and with a hoary 

 tinge ; shanks and feet black : wings gray, brownish at the base ; proebra- 

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

 is slightly curved ; lower cross-vein very slightly undulating. Length of 

 the body 7 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



East Indies. 



Tachina dlbia, Ftm. 



Nigra ; caput argcnteum ; thorax cineretts, utrinque fulvus, nigro quadri- 

 vittatus ; scutellum fulvum ; abdomen fulvum, albo-micans, nigro vit- 

 tatum ; pedes fulvi, tarsis nigris ; alee subcinerea;, ad venas fusccB. 



Fam. Faunidm ; Gen. Phryno P Black : head tawny, with a silvery 

 white covering, clothed behind and beneath with pale yellow hairs ; crown 

 black with a pale gilded covering; frontalia reddish-pitchy, widening 

 towards the feelers; frontalia without bristles: epistoma slightly prorai- 



