340 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



gilded tomentum and with many black bristles ; fore part and 

 hind part with silvery tomentum, the latter with white hairs; 

 frontalia linear; facialia with bristles by the epistoma, which 

 is slightly prominent. Eyes bare. Palpi tawny. Antennae 

 red; third joint black, red at the base, reaching the epistoma, 

 about four times the length of the second joint ; arista 

 slender, longer than the third joint. Thorax with many long 

 stout bristles on each side, with cinereous tomentum and with 

 four black stripes. Scutellum ferruginous, black at the base. 

 Abdomen tessellated with cinereous, with some stout black 

 spines towards the tip. Wings pellucid; veins black, testa- 

 ceous at the base ; praebrachial vein forming an obtuse angle 

 at its flexure, joining the costal vein at some distance from 

 the tip of the wing ; discal transverse vein slightly undulating, 

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

 less than its length from the flexure of the praebrachial ; 

 alulae white. Length of the body 5 lines. Hor Tamanib. 



64. E. incisus. Male. Black, stout. Head with silvery 

 white tomentum, which is brightest on the facialia ; frontalia 

 deep black, linear, with a row of bristles on each side, and 

 with an elongated black spot on each side where they join the 

 facialia; one long bristle and a iew short bristles on each side 

 of the epistoma, which is slightly prominent. Eyes bare. 

 Palpi tawny. Antennae nearly reaching the epistoma ; third 

 joint linear, about four times the length of the second ; arista 

 much longer than the third joint, slightly incrassated for 

 about half the length from the base. Thorax with cinereous 

 tomentum, with some short bristles on each side and with 

 four black stripes. Abdomen with many stout bristles on 

 each side and at the tip ; three very broad shining cinereous 

 bands, the first and second very narrowly interrupted in the 

 middle ; under side cinereous, black towards the tip. Wings 

 cinereous; veins black; praebrachial vein forming a slightly 

 obtuse angle at its flexure, near which it is slightly bent and 

 is thence straight to its tip, which joins the costal vein at 

 some distance from the tip of the wing; discal transverse 

 vein hardly undulating, parted by much less than its length 

 fronj the border and from the flexure of the praebrachial; 

 alulae white. Length of the body 4 lines. Hor Tamanib. 



Gen. Frontina, Macq. 

 65 F. lati/ascia. Female. Black, slender. Head with 



