DIPTEUA. 993 



cross-vein with the two usual curves, the inward one distinct, the outward 

 one scarcely perceptible; alula3 yellowish, with tawny borders: halteres 

 tawny. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 

 East Indies. 



Tachina alta. 



Nigra, crassa ; caput album; thorax cincrcus ; scutellum rufum, hasi 

 nigrum ; abdomen cinereo-micans ; untenncc et pedes nigra ; alec sub- 

 cinerew. 



Fani. Faunidfe ; Gen. Pales. Black, rather thick : head with a white 

 covering ; frontalia ferruginous ; facialia without bristles except at the 

 base; epistoma not prominent; lateralia pale tawny: eyes bare: palpi 

 tatcny : feelers black ; third joint linear, rounded at the tip, reaching the 

 epistoma, about six times the length of the second ; sixth slender, very 

 much longer than the third : chest with a cinereous covering ; scutcheon red, 

 black at the base : abdoynen obconical, a little longer than the chest, with 

 cinereous reflections : wings slightly gray ; veins black, tawny at the base ; 

 praebrachial vein forming a slightly obluse angle at its flexure, beyond 

 which it is slightly carved inward ; lower cross-vein with a very slight 

 outward curve in the middle : aliilaj whitish. Length of the body 4^ lines ; 

 of the wings 8 lines. 



Madras or Calcutta ? 



Tachina picea, Mas. 



Nigra; caput album ; thorax albo vittatus ; scutellum ferrugineum ; ab- 

 domen albo-micans, lateribus ferrtigineum ; anteiiiKc mgr<c, bast 

 subtusquc fcrruginccc ; pedes nigri ; alec subciiieretc, basi subfuscfc. 



Fam. Faunida ; Gen. Phryno. Black: head adorned tvith a white 

 covering; frontalia deep brown, linear; intorfrontalia dull black ; facialia 

 beset with bristles at each end : eyes hairy : mouth pitchy ; palpi lainiy, 

 with a white covering towards their lips: feelers ferruginous ; third joint 

 linear, rounded at the tip, black above, not reaching the epistoma, full 

 twice the length of the second : chest striped with white ? scutcheon dark 

 ferruginous : abdomen ferruginous on each side, with ivhite reflections on the 



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