70 I March, 



I will take those genera seriatim to which I have any remarks to 

 make, or fresh species to insert, following the order I adopted in my 

 " Annotated List." 



APHEIA, Dsv. 



A. ANGUSTIFKONS, Mde.* 



Male. Head : forehead slightly prominent, frontalia narrow, central stripe 

 black and wider than the sides, which, like the face, are white with blue-black 

 reflections ; fronto-orbital bristles in a single row extending as far as the apex of the 

 second joint of theantennse; cheeks bare, and divided from the chin by a brown 

 transverse groove ; epistome prominent and testaceous ; vibrissse few in number, 

 having one long bristle on each side ; facialia with only a few short ciliae at their 

 lower part ; antennae grey, first joint very short, second about twice as long as 

 broad, third about half as long again as the second, rather dilated and rounded at 

 the end; arista with the second joint a little pi'olonged, and the third long, slender, 

 a little pubescent, and dilated at the base ; proboscis piceous, long, slender, horny, 

 and narrow at the apex ; palpi long, filiform, with the points a little dilated and 

 furnished with several long hairs. Thorax black, covered with yellowish-grey 

 pubescence, marked with four longitudinal, moderately wide, black stripes, inter- 

 rupted at the suture, and having three post-sutural external dorso-central bristles. 

 Scutellum grey. Calyptra large and white. Halteres yellow. Abdomen conico- 

 cylindrical, with first segmeiit narrow and black, second, third, and fourth cinereous, 

 with an irregular interrupted black band on their hind margins ; ventral sui'faces of 

 the second and third segments somewhat rufous and translucent; dorsum with both 

 discal and marginal setse. Wings slightly brown, costal spine long, fourth longitu- 

 dinal vein bent in a curve, apical cross vein curved a little inwards, and ending a 

 little before the apex of the wing, leaving the first posterior cell a little open ; outer 

 cross vein rather sinuous, third longitudinal vein with two or three setse at the base. 

 Legs black, tarsi long, with large pulvilli and long hairs at the end ; hind tibiae with 

 a few long bristles of unequal lengths on their outer sides. Length, 8 mm. 



A single specimen of this well marked Tachinid was found by the late Mr. 

 Pascoe at Folkestone. This species is rather anomalous, and differs from A. longi- 

 rostris, Mgn. (the only other recorded species), by having the frontalia narrowed in 

 the male, and by the abdomen possessing discal setae. Messrs. Brauer and v. Ber- 

 genstaram would place it in a new genus, which they have named Mhinotaohina. 



DEMOTICUS, Mcq. 



I shall confine this genus to the typical species, viz., D. plehejus, and introduce 

 a fresh genus, in which T. frontata, Bohem., must be placed, together witii two 

 other allied species. 



BITHIA, Dsv.* 

 Demoticus, p. Schiner. 

 Myolia, p. Mgn. et End. 

 Hystrichoneura, Brauer and Berg. 



* Wiener Ent. Zeitung, xi, Jahrg. (Mars, 1892). 

 * "Histoire Nat. des DiptSres des environs de Paris," t. 1, p. 770. 



