394 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



jore borders of the segments : legs black : ^vings slightly gray, brownish at 

 the base ; veins black, ferruginous at the base ; prsebrachial vein forming 

 an obtuse angle at its flexure, very slightly curved inward from thence to 

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

 than the other which is outward : alulce white : halteres tawny. Length 

 of the body 5^ lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



Columbia. 



Tachina umbrifera. 



Nigra, aurata; thorax nigro quadfivittatus ; abdomen fulvum, nigra 

 vittatum fasciatum et terminatuni ; antenna et pedes nigra ; alec 

 fusca. 



Fam. Faunidfc; Gen. Lydella. Mas. Black; head and chest with 

 a gilded covering ; frontalia deep black, widening from the eyelets to the 

 feelers, beset with bristles along each side ; facialia without bristles except 

 at the base ; epistoraa not prominent : eyes bare : palpi tawny : feelers 

 black ; third joint linear, almost truncated at the tip, not reaching the 

 epistoraa, as deep as the second and about twice its length ; sixth slender, 

 more than twice the length of the third ; chest with four black stripes ,■ 

 inner pair slender ; outer pair broad : abdomen tawny, obconical, a little 

 longer than the chest, tvith a black stripe, black bands on the hind borders 

 of the segments and a black tip : wings dark brown, gray along the hind 

 borders towards the base ; veins black, tawny at the base ; praebrachial vein 

 forming an obtuse angle at its flexure, almost straight from thence to its 

 tip ; lower cross-vein with the two curves which are rather slight : alute 

 and halteres yellow. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



Brazil. 



Tachina compacta, Fern. 



Nigra, aurata ; caput antice el subtus argenteum ,■ scutellum margine pos- 

 tico ferrugineum ; abdomen nigro vittatum et fasciatum, basi nigrum, 

 subtus canum ; antenna ferruginete ; pedes nigri ; alee subcinerece. 



Fam. Faunida: ; Gen. Athrycia /' Black, with a pale gold co- 

 vering tvhich decreases in brightness from the head to the abdomen : head 



