332 Mr. E. K. Austen on ih- Syaonymij and 



Tachina austrulis (Ins. Saund. — Dipt. pt. iv. (1852) 

 p. 271). — New Soutli W'ix\Q») = B/e/i/iuripoda {Tachina) 

 zebina, Walk. 



Tachina leucralcs (List Dipt. Ins. Brit. Mas. pt. iv. p. 475 

 (1849). — South Africa) is jjcrhaps to be assiji:ne(l to the 

 genus BracheVia, Rob.-Desv. (Ess. stir les !Myo(l. p. 61) — 

 the type of which is Tachina IVestermanni, Wied. (Anss. zw. 

 Ins. ii. p. 291), from the Cape of Good Hope. On the 

 jrenns Hrache/ia, cf. Hraucr & von Hcrgcnstanim, Denkschr. 

 math.-naturw. Cl.k. Akad. Wiss., Bd. Ix. 1893, p. 184. 



Tachina cassotis {ibid. p. 761. — Sierra Leone). — Head of 

 type wanting; the species apparently belongs to the genus 

 Rhynchuniyia, Rob.-Desv. 



Tachina verrittis {ibid. p. 774. — South Africa) belongs to 

 the " Section " Phoroctra, Br. & von Berg., and may, pro- 

 visionally at any rate, he assigned to the genus Doria 

 {.^ensil Kondani). The statement in Walker's Latin diagnosis 

 as to the colour of tiie palpi, antenna^^ and legs is misleading; 

 in the typical specimen (a female) the palpi, so far as it is 

 possible to see them, appear to be brown with yellowish tips; 

 in a male in the Museum collection from Malvern, Natal, 

 ]\Iarch 1897 (G. A. K. Marshall), and a second male from 

 Leopoldville, Congo Free State, Dec. 13, 1903, "In bush" 

 {Drs. Dniton, Toddj 6^- Christy), the palpi are entirely yellow ; 

 in both sexes the antennae and legs are black, the front 

 femora greyish beneath. The arista is long and slender, 

 with its second joint greatly elongated in the male; the 

 third vein is l)ristly nearly to the small transverse vein, and 

 the bend of the fourth vein has a " Faltenzinke." 



Tachina subaurata (Ins. Saund. — Dipt. pt. iv. (1852) 

 p. 298. — Cape of Good Hope) belongs to the genus Ceromasia, 

 Rond. 



Tachina uychus (List Dipt. Ins. Brit. Mus. pt. iv. p. 770 

 (1849). — Jamaica) is a Frontina, Mg. 



Tachina basifitlva (ibid. p. 725. — Jamaica) is correctly 

 referred by Aldhch (Cat. N. Amer. Diptera, p. 485 (1905 j) 

 to the genus Archytas, Jaenn. 



Tachina injinnu [ibid. \). 719. — Chile) is an Archytas, 

 Jaeuu. 



Tachina pilosa (Ins. Saund. — Dipt. pt. iv. (1852) p. 266 

 (" Mvsca pilosa ? Drury "). — S, America) = Archytas hystrix, 

 Fabr. 



Tachina lalifrons {ibid. p. 284. — S. America), correctly 



