LIST OF DIPTERA. 717 



beneath with yellowish white hairs ; epistoma very prominent ; no 

 bristles on the sides of the face ; sucker black, pitchy and clothed 

 with a few short pale tawny hairs at the tip ; palpi tawny : eyes red, 

 not bristly: feelers black, as long as the face; third joint a little 

 longer than the second, slightly convex above, ferruginous and flat 

 beneath, rounded at the tip ; bristle dark ferruginous, downy, slen- 

 der, tapering, about twice the length of the third feeler-joint ; first 

 and second joints long, pitchy, of equal length : chest gray, witli a 

 tawny tinge, clothed with black hairs and bristles, adorned with 

 four slender darker indistinct and interrupted stripes ; breast hoary ; 

 scutcheon armed with black spines : abdomen very dark red, shin- 

 ing, beset with black hairs and spines : legs black, clothed with 

 black hairs and bristles ; thighs, especially the fore pair, covered 

 with a grayish tawny bloom ; claws tawny, with black tips ; foot- 

 cushions pale yellow : wings brownish gray ; wing-ribs tawny ; 

 veins pitchy; tip cross-vein lorming a slightly acute angle with the 

 fourth longitudinal vein, much curved inward near the base, straight 

 from thence to the tip, which joins the border at some distance 

 above the tip of the wing ; lower cross-vein nearly straight till near 

 the tip, where it has a short and slight outward curve ; scales black- 

 ish. Length of the body 7 lines; of the wings 15 lines. 

 a. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



Tachina metallifera, n. s. Nigra, capite albido, thorace subcinereo, 

 abdomine nigroeeneo, antennis fulvis articulo 3° piceo, pedibus 

 nigris, alis cinereis basi vittisque fulvis. 



Body black: head yellowish white, grayish tawny including ;t 

 ferruginous stripe between the eyes, beset above and in front with 

 black bristles, clothed beneath with yellowish white hairs ; epistoma 

 prominent ; no bristles on the sides of the face : sucker black, ferru- 

 ginous, and clothed with short tawny hairs at the tip ; palpi tawny, 

 rather long : eyes red : feelers tawny, as long as the face ; third 

 joint pitchy, a little longer than the second, slightly convex above, 

 flat beneath, rounded at the tip ; bristle pitchy, tapering, almost 

 naked, black towards the tip, less than twice the length of the third 

 feeler-joint, its second joint long, about twice the length of the first: 

 chest slightly tinged with gray, indistinctly striped, clothed with 

 black hairs and bristles : scutcheon and abdomen armed with black 

 spines : abdomen brassy-black above, black with hoary reflections 

 beneath : legs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; claws 

 red, with black tips; foot-cushions pale tawny: wings gray, tawny 

 at the base, slightly tawny on the fore borders and along the sides 

 of the veins ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; veins pitchy towards the 

 tips ; tip cross-vein forming hardly less than a right angle with the 



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