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silvery, ivhite in front and beneath, clothed beiiealh wilh white bails; fron- 

 talia deep black, narrow, linear; facialia witbout bristles except at the 

 base; epistoma very slightly prominent: eyes bare: mouth pitchy ; palpi 

 tawny: feelers ferruginous ; third joint pitchy tozvards the tip, more than 

 twice the length of the second, hardly reaching the epistoma; sixth joint 

 black: scutcheon slightly ferruginous along the hind* border : abdomen oh- 

 conical, not longer than the chest, with a slender black stripe ; first segment 

 blacJf ; second and third black along the hind borders; under side hoary, 

 partly blac/c ; legs black ; thighs with a white covering : wings very slightly 

 gray ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; praebrachial vein forming an 

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

 tip ; lower cross-vein curved inward near the base : alula) white. Length 

 of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



Brazil. 



Tachina interrupta, Fem. 



Cana, elliptica ; caput antice auratum ; thorax nigro quadrivittatus ; ab- 

 domen lateribuspiceum,apice ferrugineum ; antenna nigra, basifer- 

 ruginece ; pedes nigri, tiblis piceis ; ala subeinerea, hasi subtestaceee. 



Fam. Faunidce ; Gen. Phryno. Body elliptical, xvith a hoary cover- 

 ing : head rather prominent, bright gold-colour in front, clothed behind and 

 beneath with white hairs ; frontalia pitchy, distinctly striated, widening 

 from the eyelets to the feelers ; facialia ferruginous, without bristles except 

 at the base ; epistoma hardly prominent ; mouth pitchy ; palpi tajvny : 

 feelers black ; first and second joints ferruginous ; third slender, linear, 

 rounded at the tip, nearly reaching the epistoma, about thrice the length of 

 the second : chest with four interrupted black stripes ; abdomen pitchy on 

 each side ; tip ferruginous : legs black ; thighs with a hoary tinge beneath ; 

 shanks pitchy ; wings pale gray, with a slight testaceous tinge at the base; 

 veins black, tawny at the base; preebrachial vein forming an obtuse angle 

 at its flexure, beyond which it is very slightly inclined inward ; lower cross- 

 vein wilh two equally slight curves, the lower inward, the upper outward: 

 alulte white, wilh pale yellow borders. Length of the body 5.J lines ; of 

 the wings 1 1 lines. 



Georgia. 



