296 INSECTA SAUNDEESIANA. 



TaCHINA OBCONICA, M^S. ~ 'T' 



Nigra, canescens ; caput album ; thorax nigro quadrimttatus ; alee sub- 

 cinerecB. 



Black : head with a white covering ; frontalia deep black, slightly 

 widening towards the feelers ; facialia without bristles except at the base ; 

 epistoma not prominent: palpi tawny : feelers black; third joint linear, 

 very slightly rounded at the tip, not reaching the epistoma, full thrice the 

 length of the second ; sixth slender, nearly twice the length of the third, 

 rather stout towards the base : chest and abdomen with a hoary covering : 

 chest with four indistinct black stripes : abdomen obconical, very little 

 longer than the chest : wings very slightly gray ; veins black, pitchy at the 

 base ; praebrachial vein forming an obtuse angle at its flexure, very slightly 

 inclined inward from thence to its tip ; lower cross-vein with the two curves 

 which are distinct : alulae white. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the 

 wings 8 lines. 



United States. 



Tachina CHEYSOTELUS, Mas. ^U4/U^^(A? Z07 



Nigra, canescens ; caput auratum ; thorax nigro quadrivittatus ; abdomen 

 albo-micans, apice auratum ; alee subcinerece. 



Black, with a hoary tinge : head bright gold-colour, thickly clothed be- 

 hind and beneath with white hairs ; frontalia black, slightly widening at 

 each end ; face white ; facialia beset with black bristles along the whole 

 length; epistoma not prominent: eyes clothed with pale hairs: mouth 

 red ; palpi black : feelers black ; third joint linear, almost reaching the 

 epistoma, about thrice the length of the second joint: chest with four 

 black stripes : abdomen obconical, not longer than the chest, ivith white re- 

 flections on each side ; tip gold-colour : legs black : icings slightly gray ; 

 veins black ; preebrachial vein forming an obtuse angle at its flexure, from 

 whence it is hardly curved inward ; lower cross-vein with two very slight 

 curves, the lower inward one more than thrice the length of the upper out- 

 ward one: alulae white. Length of the body A\ lines; of the wings 9 

 lines. 



Brazil. 



