LIST OF DIPTERA. 725 



yellowish white. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 12 

 lines. 



- ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Tachina grossa, Fabr. Syst. Antl. 310, 7. Fall. Muse. Act. Holm. 

 1810, 261, 1. Meig. Dipt. iv. 239, 1. Latr. Reg. Anim. v. 

 510. Musca grossa, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 991. Faun. Suec. 

 1837. Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. v. 2845, 75. Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 

 441. Ent. Syst. iv. 325, 53. Reaum. Ins. iv. pi. 26, /. 10. 

 Beg. Ins. vi. 12, 1, pi. 1, /. 1, 2. Panz. Faun. Germ. 30, 21. 

 Herbst. Gem. Nat. viii. 109, 14, pi. 341, /. 2. Harr. Ex. 35, 

 pi. 9, /. 1. Don. Brit. Ins. x. 53, pi. 346, /. 1. Stew. El. ii. 

 259. Turt. iii. 605. Shaw, Gen. Zool, vi. 385. Lam. Anim. 

 sans Verteb. iii. 362, 8. Echinomyia grossa, Dumeril, Latr. 

 Gen. Crust, iv. 343. Cons. Gen. 444. Desv. Essai Myod. 44, 1 ? 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 2me serie, ii. 141. Macq. Hist. Nat. 

 Dipt. ii. 71, 1. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 2me sSrie, iii. 255, 

 2, pi. 4, /. 6. Zett. Dipt. Scand. iii. 992, 1. 



a. England. 



b. France. 



Tachina basifulva, n. s. Cinerea, capite albo, thoracis vittis qua- 

 tuor obscurioribus, abdomine cyaneo-nigro , antennis nigris, arti- 

 culo 3° subtus ferrugineo, pedibus nigris, alis fusco-cinereis basi 



Head white, beset above and in front with a few black bristles, 

 clothed beneath with white hairs : crown blackish, thinly clothed 

 with hoary hairs ; a pitchy stripe between the eyes ; epistoma 

 slightly prominent; no bristles on the sides of the face: sucker 

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

 pitchy, clothed with short black bristles tawny towards the tips : eyes 

 pitchy: feelers black, hardly shorter than the face; third joint 

 shorter than the second, very convex above, flat and ferruginous be- 

 neath, rounded at the tip ; bristle naked, tapering from the base to 

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

 second joint more than twice the length of the first joint: chest 

 gray, with four darker, slender, very indistinct stripes, slightly shin- 

 ing, clothed with black hairs and bristles, somewhat tawny about 

 the roots of the wings ; scutcheon armed with black spines : abdo- 

 men bluish black, shining, beset with black hairs and spines, 

 slightly covered with a gray bloom : legs black, clothed with black 

 hairs and bristles ; foot-cushions small, pale tawny : wings brown- 

 ish gray, tawny towards the base ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins tawny, 



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