999 INSECTA SAUNDEESIANA. 



nent -. eyes hairy : mouth pitchy ; palpi tawny : feelers black ; second 

 joint ferruginous ; third linear, rather deep, almost truncated at the tip, 

 not reaching the epistoraa, near thrice the length of the second ; orifice in 

 the middle of the length, a little nearer the lower border than the upper : 

 chest U'ith a cinereous or siightlij yilded covering, tawny on each side, ivith 

 four slender black stripes; scutcheon tawny : abdomen tawny with white 

 reflections, darker at the tip, tvith a black dorsal stripe irhich is widened at 

 the base and on the hind border of each segment ; a black band along the 

 hind border of the third segment : legs taivny ; feet black; claws fringed, 

 tawny towards the base ; onychia luteous : wings pale gray, tinged with 

 brown along the borders of the veins ; veins black, tawny at the base ; prte- 

 brachial vein forming a slightly obtuse angle at its flexure, from whence it 

 is almost straight with the exception of a very slight inward curve at one- 

 third of its length ; lower cross- vein with two curves, the lower inward, 

 deeper than the other which is outward : alulae whitish, with pale yellow 

 borders. Length of the body 4 J lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



Cape. 



Tachina adusta. 



Cervina ; caput argenteum ; thorax fusco quinquevittatus ; abdomen ful- 

 vum, maculis trigonis nigris vittatum, flaro fasciatum ; antenna: et 

 pedes nigra; alee cineretp, basi fulv<s, apud venas fuscce. 



Fam. Fau7iidce ; Gen. Phryno. Mas. Pale faivn-colour : head with 

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

 frontalia pitchy, linear; epistoma hardly prominent; facialia beset with 

 bristles along the face and along the peristoma : eyes bare : mouth pitchy ; 

 palpi taumy : feelers black ; third joint slender, reaching the epistoma, full 

 six times the length of the second ; sixth joint stout, hardly longer than 

 the third joint : chest with five interrupted broivn stripes: abdomen ob- 

 conical, tawny, a little longer than the chest ; a triangular black spot on 

 the hind border of each segment ; third and fourth segments yellow with 

 black hind borders : legs black : uings gray, tawny at the base, brown be- 

 neath the fore border and along the borders of the veins ; veins black, tawny 

 towards the base ; praebrachial vein forming a slightly obtuse angle at its 

 flexure, near which it is indistinctly inclined inward, almost straight from 

 thence to the tip which is very near the tip of the cubital vein ; lower 



