3.'U Ml. 1",. K. Austen on the St/nonj/im/ and 



Ttichina chrysotrlux (Ins. Snund. — Dipt, iv. (1852) p. 290. 

 — Itrazil) = Tarfiina tinrlu, Walk. {ibid. p. 2.S7). Tlio species 

 is a Phorocera with \\\c alxloiniital inacrocluctae conlinrd to 

 the ninrjiins of i\\c sc^JCim-nts. The Museum collection 

 contains a female of this species from Santa Catharina, 

 Brazil [Crowley lif(/uest). 



Tnchinn compartn {ihid. p. 2!) A. — Brazil) is a Bltpfxtripoda, 

 Hr. & von Bcrfj. : Masirrra niacris, Walk. (Trans. iCnt. Soc. 

 Lond. new scr. vol. v, (1801) p. 301-) is a synonym of this 

 species. 



Tachina scita (Ins. Sannd. — Dipt. iv. (1852) p. 302. — 

 Brazil). — The type is a female, not a male as stated by 

 Walker. The face is slightly hairy ; the lower anterior 

 an^lc of tlie third joiiit of the antenna is somewhat 

 prominent ; the facial ridges are ciliated on rather less than 

 the lower half; the abdomen has only marginal macrochn^taj, 

 and the second and third segments arc serrate helow. — Genus 

 uncertain : " Section " Pscudodcrin, Hr. ^^ von Herg., near 

 Dexodvs, Br. & von Berg., and Gymnostylia, Br. ic von Berg, 

 (ncr .Mac(|.) ; .v^/wji Aldrich (Cat. X. .Vnur. Dipt.) the species 

 is probably a Masiccra. 



Turhiiia sordidu {ibid. p. 297. — S. America). — Cjemis 

 uncertain: "Section" Pseud tdexii, Br. & von Berg.? — 

 The type is a male, not a female as stated by Walker; the 

 palpi are orange, not "black." The vil)riss;« are well above 

 the oral margin, and the jowls descend eonsid( rably behind ; 

 the abdominal macroclKcta; are confined to the margins of 

 the segments. 



Turhina itmbrifera {ibid. p. 291. — Brazil). — Genus un- 

 certain, possibly new ; near Ptilodeyeeria, Br. & von Berg. 

 (" Section " Pscudodexia, Br. & von Berg ). Eyes bare ; 

 jowls somewhat descending behind ; abdominal inacroehaetae 

 only marginal 



Tachina cincta {ibid. p. 303. — Brazil). — The type (a male, 

 not a female as stated by Walker) is in poor condition, since 

 the abdomen hits been damaged. The species belongs to the 

 "Section" Pseudodi-xia, 13r. & von Berg. ; genus nnccrtain, 

 perhaps new; near Degecria, Mg., but the facial ridges are 

 bare, and the arista is pubescent. 



Tachina sfjuamuta {ibid. p. 279. — Colombiaj api)arently 

 belongs to the genus Lepidodcxia, Br. & von Berg. (Denkschr. 

 math.-natnrw. CI. k. Akad. Wiss., Bd. Iviii. (1891; p. 379) ; 

 however, in the type, at any rate, the bristles on the third 

 vein do not extend quite so far as halfway between the 



