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Length four lines and a half to six lines, breadth nine to ten lines and a half 

 Black, clothed with short yellowish pubescence ; face yellow or white with very short 

 hairs, excepting a black shining space down the middle; antennae brown except at the 

 base, the seta ochreous ; thorax with two narrow yellow lines down the fore part of the 

 back ; scutellum dull ochreous ; abdomen with a rather large bright ochreous trigonate- 

 lunate spot on each side at the base, and colouring the sides of the first segment 

 beneath, the two following with a transverse yellow lunate spot on each side, the first 

 pair sometimes being bright ochreous outside ; base of wmgs and costa tinged with 

 dull yellow, stigmatic spot fuscous, nervures black, alulae and halteres ochreous; base 

 of the tihuE, and sometimes the apex of the thighs, ochreous. 

 The box contains three specimens. 



Fam.— MUSCID-E. 

 Gen. 1276.— TACHINA. (///.) 



31. Ilirta. Black, very bristly, face silvery, hairs on back of head grey, scutellum 

 subochreous. 



Length six lines, breadth ten lines. 



Black, pubescent, and covered with long bristles, especially the abdomen ; head tri- 

 gonate, silvery-white, excepting the crown, the hairs behind the eyes grey ; eyes naked ; 

 antennae with the third joint long and elliptical, seta stout at the base ; thorax with 

 four indistinct whitish lines before ; scutellum tawny except at the base ; wings similar 

 to fig. 23, tab. 41, of ISIeigen, yellowish-brown at the base; squamulae ochreous. 



A single specimen was preserved, which I believe was bred from the Laria. 



Gen. 1287.— ANTHOMYIA. {Meig.?) 



32. Diibia. Cinereous, eyes margined with white, thorax with three fuscous stripes. 

 Two lines long, three lines and a half broad. 



Grey-ash colour, sparingly pilose ; antennae with the basal joint minute, the second 

 subtrigonate, third scarcely larger and oblong ; eyes reddish-brown, face dull shining 

 white, crown of head ash colour; thorax with three fuscous stripes down the back, 

 and an indistinct one on each side ; wings rather broad, iridescent, the nervures 

 and legs black. 



