SOME NEW SPECIES OF TACHINIDAE FROM INDIA. 



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Frontina kashmiri, sp. n. 



Thorax and abdomen grey pollinose on a black ground. Wings hyaline. Palpi 

 yellow. Facial ridges bristly on lower two-thirds. Third segment of antenna in 

 male two and a half times the length of second. Eyes bare. Front of male at 

 ocellar triangle about three-fourths the width of either eye. Thre esternopleural 

 bristles and four post-suturals. Scutellum black. Second abdominal segment with 

 a pair of median marginal macrochaetae. Hind tibiae with comb-like arrangement 

 of bristles. 



Head (fig. 13) at vibrissae much narrower than at base of antennae. Palpi well 

 ■developed, yellow. Vibrissae inserted well above the oral margin. Eyes bare. 

 ■Cheeks (genae) white pollinose, covered with short black hairs almost to the base 



Fig. 13. Head, of Frontina kashmiri, sp. n., <$. 



•of eyes ; a row of stouter bristles at oral margin, forming an obtuse angle with the 

 bristles of the facial ridges. Distances from oral margin to base of eye equal to 

 about one-third of eye height. Sides of face covered with silvery pollen, bare except 

 for a few scattered black hairs ; narrowest width equal to half the distance between 

 the vibrissae. Facial ridges bristly on lower two-thirds. Facial depression silvery 

 pollinose, without any carina. Antenna in male reaching lower three-fourths of 

 face, the first two segments reddish, the last black ; third segment in male two 

 and one-half times the length of second. Arista thickened on basal two-fifths, 

 the penultimate segment no longer than broad. Front in male at narrowest point 

 about three-fourths the width of either eye, silvery pollinose below, grading to 

 black at vertex ; frontal vitta dull, dark brown, at narrowest point only a third as 

 wide as either side of front. No orbital bristles in male ; the frontal bristles 



