720 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



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

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

 eyes red, slightly bronzed : feelers ferruginous, as long as the face ; 

 third joint black, longer than the second, very convex above, flat 

 beneath, rounded at the tip ; bristle black, stout, naked, tapering, 

 much longer than the third feeler-joint, though not near twice its 

 length, its second joint long, twice the length of the first : chest and 

 breast gray, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; scutcheon pitchy, 

 ferruginous on the hind border, armed wilh black spines : abdomen 

 coal-black, shining, clothed with black hairs, armed with some 

 black spines, which are mostly near the tip : legs black, clothed 

 with black hairs and bristles ; foot-cushions pale tawny : wings 

 gray, tawny at the base ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins pitchy, tawny at 

 the base ; tip cross-vein forming a right angle with the fourth longi- 

 tudinal vein, slightly 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 with two outward curves, the one 

 short and at the base, the other longer and near the tip ; scales 

 dingy white. Length of the body 5i lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 

 a. Chili. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 



Group XVIII. 



Third joint of the feelers longer than the second, convex above, 

 flat beneath, rounded at the tip ; first and second joints of the 

 bristle long, and of nearly equal length. 



Tachina candens, n. s. Nigra, capite albido, abdomine nigro-rufo, 

 antennis ferrugineis, articulo 3° supra piceo, pedibus nigris, alis 

 cinereis basi fulvis. 



Head yellowish white, tawny with a pitchy stripe between the 

 eyes, beset above with a few black bristles, clothed beneath with pale 

 yellow 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, beset with short black bristles: eyes red, here 

 and there pitchy, not hairy : feelers ferruginous, as long as the face ; 

 third joint longer than the second, pitchy and convex above, flat 

 beneath, rounded at the tip : bristle black, downy, rather thick, ta- 

 pering, longer than the third feeler-joint, its first and second joints 

 long and of nearly equal length : chest black, thickly covered with 

 tawny down, clothed with a few black hairs and bristles : scutcheon 

 and abdomen armed with a few black spines, those on the abdomen 

 are nearly all towards its tip : abdomen blackish red, shining, rather 



