LIST OF D1PTERA. 719 



rather longer than that of the male. Length of the body 7 lines ; of 

 the win^s 12 lines. 



Tachina Daraippus, n. s. Fulva, capite subtus Jlavo, thorace vit- 

 tato, scutello ferrugineo, abdomine nigro, apice fulvo micante, 

 antennis ferrugineis, articulo 3° pedibusque nigris, alis fuscis 

 basi fusco-fulvis. 



Head tawny, pale yellow and shining in front and beneath, 

 clothed with some short white hairs, beset with a few black bristles, 

 furnished with a brownish stripe between the eyelets and the feel- 

 ers ; epistoma prominent ; no bristles on the sides of the face : 

 sucker black, clothed towards the tip with short tawny hairs : palpi 

 tawny, beset with black bristles, widened towards the tips : eyes 

 dark red, bare : feelers ferruginous, as long as the face ; third joint 

 black, very convex above, flat and ferruginous beneath, rounded at 

 the tip, a little shorter than the second joint ; bristle bare, tapering, 

 less than twice the length of the third feeler-joint, its second joint 

 full twice the length of the first : chest dark tawny, adorned with 

 five very indistinct darker stripes, beset with black bristles ; breast 

 paler, clothed with white hairs ; scutcheon ferruginous : abdomen 

 black, slightly shining, much broader than the chest, clothed with 

 black hairs, beset with black bristles and spines, adorned with dark 

 tawny reflections towards the tip : legs black, clothed with black 

 hairs and bristles ; claws tawny at the base ; foot-cushions yellow : 

 wings brown, brownish tawny at the base ; wing-ribs deep tawny ; 

 veins pitchy ; tip cross-vein forming a hardly acute angle with the 

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

 hence to the tip, which joins the border at some distance above the 

 tip of the wing ; lower cross-vein having a slight inward curve near 

 the base, and a short, but hardly perceptible outward curve close to 

 the tip ; scales brown, with tawny borders. Length of the body 6 

 lines ; of the wings 13 lines. 



Tachina seminigra, Wied. Auss. Zweif. ii. 296, 26. 

 a. Para. Presented by Gordon Graham, Esq. 



Tachina infirma, n. s. Nigra, thorace cinereo, scutello piceo mar- 

 gine postico ferrugineo, abdomine nigro, antennis ferrugineis, ar- 

 ticulo 3° nigro, pedibus nigris, alis cinereis basi fulvis. 

 Body black: head yellowish white, tawny between the eyes, 

 beset above with a few black hairs and bristles, clothed beneath 

 with yellowish white hairs ; epistoma very prominent ; no bristles on 



