726 LIST OF D1PTEEA. 



pitchy towards the tips ; tip cross-vein forming a slightly acute an- 

 gle with the fourth longitudinal vein, 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 almost straight, 

 with the exception of two very indistinct curves, the lower inward, 

 the upper outward ; scales blackish. Length of the body 5 — b\ 

 lines; of the wings 11 — 12 lines. 

 a. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



Tackina Anaxias, n. s. Nigra, capite fulvo, thorace vittis quinque 

 canis, scutello abdominisque apice rufis, antennis ferrugineis, ar- 

 ticulo 3° nigro, pedibus nigris, alis fuscis basi subfulvis. 

 Body black : head tawny, with paler reflections, darker on the 

 crown, beset above with black bristles, clothed beneath with pale 

 yellow hairs ; epistoma very prominent ; no bristles on the sides of 

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

 at the tip; palpi tawny, very slender, beset with black bristles: eyes 

 red : feelers ferruginous, as long as the face ; third joint black, more 

 than half the length of the second, very convex above, flat beneath, 

 rounded at the tip ; bristle black, naked, tapering, about twice the 

 length of the third feeler-joint, its second joint long, about twice the 

 length of the first: chest clothed with black hairs and bristles, 

 adorned with five indistinct hoary stripes ; scutcheon dull dark red : 

 abdomen black, with hoary reflections, clothed with black hairs, 

 armed with a few black spines ; the last segment red : legs black, 

 clothed with black hairs and bristles ; claws tawny, with black tips ; 

 foot-cushions pale yellow : wings brown, with a tawny tinge to- 

 wards the base ; wing-ribs and veins tawny, the latter pitchy 

 towards the tips ; tip cross-vein forming a slightly acute angle with 

 the fourth longitudinal vein, 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 straight till near the 

 tip, where it is slightly curved outward ; scales dingy white. 

 Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 10 lines. 

 a. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



Tachina fera, Fair. Si/st. Anil. 308, 1. Fall. Act. Holm. 1810, 

 262, 2. Muse. 3, 2. Meig. Dipt. iv. 340, 3. Musca reccumbo, 

 Harr. Ex. 35, pi. 9, /. 4. Echinomyia fera, Dumeril, Latr. 

 Gen. Crust, iv. 343. Desv. Essai Myo'd. 46, 9. Ann. Soc. Eni. 

 France, 2me serie, ii. 14, 1. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. ii. 72,5. 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 2rne serie, iii. 256, 3, pi. 4, /. 1. Zett. 

 Dipt. Scand. iii. 994, 3. Musca fera, Linn. 'Syst. Nat. ii. 991. 



