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9 . 8th dorsal segment with four equally long spines, the 

 lateral ones stouter : 6th ventral segment with four teeth, the 

 lateral much less produced and separated from the inner by 3 

 triangular notch, the middle ^^idely separated from each othei 

 by a broad rounded emargination. 

 Tutau River, 2 9 specimens. 



Tachinus ferrugtnrus n. sp. 



Shining ferruginous red, the head posteriorly a little 

 infuscate. Antennae and legs reddish-testaceous. Length 6.75 

 mm. A broad robust species narrowed behind ; broader in front 

 than T. humeralis Gr., less parallel, very much more finely 

 punctured and with much longer antennte. Head very finely 

 and very sparingly punctured, distinctly coriaceous. Antenna^ 

 with the 3rd joint a little longer than 2nd, 4th to 10th all 

 longer than broad gradually decreasing in length, the 11th as 

 long as the preceding. Thorax extremely^ finely and very 

 sparingly punctured, coriaceous. Elytra much longer than 

 the thorax, longer than broad, gradually narrowed behind, 

 sculpture as on the thorax. Abdomen narrowed from base to 

 apex, very finely and very sparingly punctured, finely 

 transversely strigose. 



9- 8th dorsal segment with four long, pointed, equidistant, 

 setiferous processes of which the external are stouter and a 

 little more advanced than the median. 6th ventral segment 

 with six long equidistant setiferous processes, the rtiost 

 external a little stouter than the others. 



Mt. Murud. .5000 to 6000 feet, a single 9 specimen. 



Tachtnoproprus n. gen. 



Differs from Tachinus in the keeled mesosterhunY. the' 

 longitudinally impi'essed sides and rounded postero^-exfernal 

 aiigles of the elytra, the elytra epipleura^ not at all visible 

 when viewed laterally and the long 1st Joint of the poste^-r<!)¥' 

 tarsi ; from Coproporiis by the 3rd joint of the rnaxillafy pal'^i' 

 being much shorter than 2nd. and the general facies of 

 Tachinus. 



TacBtnoproporus FERRtJGTNErs n. sp. 



Broad, subdepressed, narrowed posteriorly, moderately 

 shining, ferruginous, the head black, a variable extent of the 

 disc of the elytra posterior black or blackish. Antemiae and 



