718 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



fourth longitudinal vein, which sends forth a very short stump 

 beyond it, slightly curved inward for half the length from the base, 

 almost straight from thence to the tip, which joins the border at 

 some distance above the tip of the wing ; lower cross-vein slightly 

 curved inward near the base, almost straight though indistinctly 

 waving from thence to the tip ; scales white. Length of the body 

 7 lines; of the wings 13 lines. 



Tachina apicifera, n. s. Mneo-fmca^ capite albo, pectore cano, ab- 

 clomine Jiigroceueo apice ferrugineo, antennis piceofulvis, pedibus 

 nigris, alls subcinereis basi fulvis. 



Head white, brownish tawny including a tawny stripe between 

 the eyes, beset above with some black bristles, clothed beneath with 

 yellowish white hairs; epistoma prominent; no bristles on the sides 

 of the face : sucker black, pitchy, and clothed with short tawny 

 hairs at the tip ; palpi tawny, rather short, beset with short black 

 bristles : eyes pitchy : feelers tawny, as long as the face ; first 

 joint above and third joint pitchy ; third joint as long as the second, 

 very convex above near the base, flat on the underside, which is taw- 

 ny towards the base, rounded at the tip ; bristle naked, tapering 

 from the base to the tip, much less than twice the length of the third 

 feeler-joint, second joint very long, about thrice the length of the 

 first: chest pale brassy-brown, covered with a hoary bloom, clothed 

 with black hairs and bristles; scutcheon more or less ferruginous, 

 armed with a few black spines; breast hoary: abdomen black, shin- 

 ing, with a very slight metallic tinge, armed with a few black spines 

 towards the tip, which has hoary reflections on each side ; last seg- 

 ment dark ferruginous: legs black, clothed with black hairs and 

 bristles; claws tawny, with black tips ; foot-cushions yellow: wings 

 slightly gray, tawny towards the base ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; 

 tips of veins pitchy ; tip cross-vein forming an 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 slightly curved inward 

 near the base, and having a shorter and more slight outward curve 

 close to the tip; scales dingy white. Length of the body 5 — oh 

 lines; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. North America. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



b. ? J 



Fern.? — Third joint of the feelers not very much more than 

 half the length of the second ; first joint tawny above: abdomen 



