LIST OF DIPTERA. 729 



clothed towards the tip with short yellow hairs : eyes dark red : feel- 

 ers dart ferruginous, as long as the face ; third joint black, not 

 much shorter than the second, extremely convex above, flat beneath, 

 rounded at the tip : bristle black, stout, tapering, not much longer 

 than the third feeler-joint, its first and second joints long, strongly 

 marked, of equal length ; first joint curved : chest and breast black, 

 covered with grayish tawny bloom, clothed with black hairs : chest 

 indistinctly striped, beset with black bristles; scutcheon tawny: ab- 

 domen tawny, nearly cylindrical, much longer than the chest, 

 adorned with whitish reflections, clothed with black hairs, armed to- 

 wards the tip with black spines ; a black stripe on the back forms a 

 triangular spot on each segment and occupies the whole breadth of 

 the tip : legs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; shanks 

 dark tawny ; foot-cushions pale tawny : wings light gray : wing- 

 ribs and veins tawny ; veins pitchy towards the tips ; the little 

 cross-vein in the disk and the lower end of the tip cross-vein clouded 

 with brown ; 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 straight till near 

 the tip, where it has an outward curve ; scales pale tawny. Length 

 of the body 6 lines of the wings 10 lines. 

 a. Massachusetts. From Prof. Sheppard's collection. 



Tachina lurida, Fair. Syst. Antl. 310, 6. Meig. Dipt. iv. 244, 8. 



T. leucocoma,ilfet<7- Dipt. \x. 244, 9. Musca lurida, Fabr. Sj . 



Ins. ii. 441, 29. Ent. Syst. iv. 324, 52. Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. 



v. 2845, 205. Echinomyia lurida, Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt, i . 



75, 14. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 2me serie, iii. 264, 11, pi. 4.f. 



10. E. cucullise, Desv. Essai Myod. 49, 16. Ann. Soc. 



Ent. France, 2me serie, ii. 195. E. lateralis, Desv. Essai 



Myod. 49, 15. E. leucocoma, Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. ii. 75, 15. 



Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 2me serie, iii. 265, 13, pi. 4,f. 9. 

 a. England. 

 h. France. 



Tachina aberrans, n. s. Cinerea, capitefulvo, thorace vittis quatuor 

 nigris, pectore cano, scutello abdomineque ferrugineis, antennis 

 fulvis articulo 3° piceo, pedibus fulvis ? alts snbfuscis. 



Head pale tawny, covered with a white lustre, beset with a few 

 black bristles, thinly clothed with white hairs ; epistoma slightly 

 prominent ; no bristles on the sides of the face : sucker pitchy, fer- 

 ruginous, and clothed with tawny hairs towards the tip : eyes red, 

 slightly bronzed: feelers tawny, as long as the face; third joint 



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