724 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



wings pale brown, somewhat darker along the borders of the veins, 

 bright tawny towards the base and along half the length of the fore 

 border ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins pitchy, tawny where the wings 

 have that colour ; tip cross-vein forming a very 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 dis- 

 tance above the tip of the wing ; lower cross-vein straight, with the 

 exception of two hardly perceptible outward curves, the one at the 

 base, the other at the tip ; scales dingy yellow. Length of the body 

 9 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. Silhet. From Mr. Sowerby's collection. 



b. ? 



Var. /3. Chest and abdomen paler : third joint of the feelers all 

 tawny. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 

 a. Madras. Presented by Walter Elliott, Esq. 



Tachina fimbriata, n. s. Nigra, capite aureo, scutello rufo-nigro, 

 abdomine rufo nigro vittato, antennis pedibusque ferrugineis, 

 femoribus nigns, alls fusco-cinereis basi fulvis. 

 Body black : head gold colour, dull tawny between the eyes, 

 beset above with black hairs and bristles, clothed beneath and more 

 thickly behind with yellow hairs ; epistoma somewhat prominent ; 

 no bristles on the sides of the face ; sucker black, pitchy, and clothed 

 with tawny hairs at the tip : palpi tawny, slender, rather long, beset 

 with black bristles : eyes red : feelers ferruginous, as long as the 

 face; third joint black, ferruginous beneath towards the base, much 

 shorter than the second joint, slightly convex above, more convex 

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

 base to the tip, full twice the length of the third feeler-joint, its se- 

 cond joint rather long, more than twice the length of the first joint : 

 chest and breast clothed with black hairs and bristles, slightly 

 covered with grayish tawny bloom ; scutcheon reddish black, armed 

 with a few black spines : abdomen very dark red, with a black 

 stripe in the middle, clothed with black hairs, armed with some 

 black spines, which are mostly towards the tip : legs ferruginous, 

 clothed with black hairs and bristles ; thighs black ; foot-cushions 

 yellow; claws tawny, with black tips: wings brownish gray, pale 

 tawny at the base ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; veins pitchy, tawny to- 

 wards the base ; tip cross-vein forming a slightly obtuse angle with 

 the fourth longitudinal vein, curved a little inward near the base, 

 straight from thence to the tip, which joins the border at some dis- 

 tance above the tip of the wing ; lower cross-vein with two long and 

 very indistinct curves, the lower inward, the upper outward ; scales 



