728 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



with black bristles, adorned with hoary stripes ; scutcheon ferrugi- 

 nous, tinged with a brassy brown hue : abdomen tawny, with some 

 slight tawny reflections, adorned on the back with an irregular 

 black stripe : legs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; 

 thighs and shanks dark ferruginous beneath ; claws ferruginous, 

 with black tips ; foot-cushions pale tawny : wings pale gray, with a 

 slight tawny tinge at the base ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; veins 

 pitchy at the tips ; tip cross-vein forming a right 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 very slightly curved outward 

 along nearly the whole length ; scales dingy white. Length of the 

 body 4^ lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 

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



Tachina Sacontala, n. s. Nigra, thoracis lateribus scutelloque fer- 

 rugineis, abdomine fulvo vitta dorsali nigra, pedibus fulvis, fe- 

 moribus nigris, alis subcinereis. 



Head wanting : chest and breast black : chest clothed with 

 black hairs, beset with black bristles ; sides and scutcheon ferrugi- 

 nous ; scutcheon armed with some black spines : abdomen tawny, 

 with paler reflections along the sutures, clothed with black hairs, 

 armed towards the tip with black spines, adorned on the back with 

 a black stripe, which tapers from the base and disappears before the 

 last segment: legs tawny, beset with black hairs and bristles ; hips 

 and thighs black : wings light gray ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; 

 cross-vein in the disk and tip cross-vein pitchy ; tip cross-vein form- 

 ing an obtuse angle with the fourth longitudinal vein, very 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 very slightly curved outward along the whole length ; 

 scales dingy white, with pale tawny borders. Length of the body 4 

 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



a. Nepaul. From the Hardwicke bequest. 



Tachina punctifera, n. s. Cinereo-fulva, capite scutelloque fulvis, 

 abdomine fulvo, albo micante vittaque nigra dorsali ornato, anten- 

 nis ferrugineis, articulo 3° nigro, pedibus nigris, tibiis fulvis, 

 alis subcinereis fusco binotatis. 



Head tawny, darkest above, closely covered with whitish shin- 

 ing down, beset with a few black hairs and bristles, thickly clothed 

 beneath behind and on each side with yellow hairs ; epistoma very 

 prominent; no bristles ou the sides o*f the face: sucker pitchy, 



