DIPTERA. Q97 



Tachina subpicea, Mas. 



Nigra, canescevs ; caput album ; thorax niqro quadrivittatus, scutello 

 piceo ; abdomen piceum, albo-micans, subtus subferrugineum ; alee 

 cinerece. 



Fam. Faunidce ; Gen. Phryno F Black: head with a white co- 

 vering, clothed beneath and behind with whitish hairs; frontalia deep 

 black, broad, almost linear ; facialia without bristles except at the base ; 

 epistoma hardly prominent : eyes bare: -palpi tawny: feelers black ; second 

 joint ferruginous ; third ferruginous beneath at the base, almost linear, 

 slightly truncated at the tip, a little deeper than the second, and about four 

 times its length ; sixth very much longer than the third : chest and breast 

 tvith a hoarg covering : chest with four black stripes ; scutcheon pitchy : ab' 

 domen obconical, pitchy, not longer than the chest, slightly faruginous 

 beneath ; sides ivith white reflections tou-ards the base of each segment ; 

 ivings gray ; veins black, tawny towards the base: prabrachial vein form- 

 ing an obtuse angle, near which it is indistinctly inclined inward, straight 

 from thence to the tip ; lower cross-vein with the two curves which are ex- 

 tremely slight : alulae dingy white with pale yellow borders. Length of 

 the body bh lines; of the wings 11 lines. 



Brazil. 



Tachina sordida. Fern. 



Nigra, aurata ; thorax nigro quadrivittatus ; abdomen albidum, nigra 

 subtessellatum, subtus cinercum ; antennce nigrce, basi et subtus rufce ; 

 alee subcinerccc, basi et apud venas subfusca. 



Fam. Faunidce. Black, with a pale gold covering, which is brighter 

 on the head than on the chest : frontalia deep black ; widening from 

 the eyelets to the feelers ; facialia bristly only at the base : eyes bare : 

 epistoma not prominent : mouth and palpi black : feelers red ; third 

 joint black, red at the base, about twice the length of the second, not 

 near reaching the epistoma ; fifth not longer than the fourth ; sixth black : 

 chest with four black stripes, the inner pair more slender than the outer 

 pair: abdomen xvhitish, slightly tessellated with black; under side gray, with 

 a while band on the hind border of each segment : legs black ; thighs with 

 a gray covering : wings grayish, pale brown at the base and along the bar- 



