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Fam. MUSCID^. 

 Div. CALYPTER^. 



Sub-fam. Tachinides. 

 Genus EcHiNOMYiA, Dumeril. 



Echinomyia ludens. '= ij^'^>^^y-^^^(f-- 



Foem. — Testacea, nigro-setosa, capite albo supra sub-aurato, 

 antennis fulvis, articulo 3° elongato apice nigro-truncato, 

 thorace sub-aurato vittis quatiior fuscescentibus, abdominis 

 apice nigro, peclibus fulvis, tarsis apice nigricantibus, alls 

 cinereis, alulis lurido-cinereis, halteribus testaceis. 



Female. — Testaceous, with stout black bristles : head slightly 

 gilded above ; white in front and beneath ; epistoma prominent ; 

 proboscis black ; antennae tawny ; third joint longer than the 

 second, increasing in breadth towards the tip, which is black and 

 truncated ; arista black, stout ; thorax sliglitly gilded, with four 

 brownish stripes; abdomen black at the tip; legs tawny; tarsi 

 blackish towards the tips ; wings grey ; veins black, tawny at the 

 base ; prsebrachial vein forming a right angle at its flexure, near 

 which it is curved, and is thence straight to its tip ; discal trans- 

 verse vein hardly curved outward, parted by a little less than its 

 length from the border and by much less than its length from the 

 flexure of the praebrachial ; alulae cinereous, with a lurid tinge; 

 halteres testaceous. 



Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 10 lines. 



Brazil. 



Echinomyia albiceps. 



Mas. — Nigra, cinereo-tomentosa nigro-setosa, capite argenteo, 

 frontalibus fulvis, palpis testaceis, antennis nigris ex parte 

 ferrugineis, aiticulis 2° et 3° aequalibus, hoc valde convexo, 

 thorace subvittato, scutello sub-ferrugineo, abdomine ferru- 

 gineo-piceo, alis cinereis, alulis albido-cinereis. 



Male. — Black, with cinereous tomentum and black bristles : 

 head silvery-white in front and beneath ; frontalia tawny, widen- 

 ing in front; epistoma slightly prominent; proboscis shining; 

 palpi testaceous, rather long and slender; antennae black, partly 

 ferruginous ; third joint very convex above, as long as the second ; 

 thorax indistinctly striped ; scutellum somewhat ferruginous ; 

 abdomen (ierruginous-piceous, shining, a little broader but hardly 

 longer than the thorax; legs black; wings grey; veins black, 

 testaceous at the base ; praebrachial vein forming a hardly obtuse 



