734 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



with white down and beset with black bristles: abdomen pale tawny, 

 beset with black bristles, these are mostly towards the tip, which is 

 black : legs pale tawny, rather long, especially the middle pair, be- 

 set with black bristles ; tips of the claws black ; foot-cushions yel- 

 low : wings brownish tawny, rather darker along the borders of the 

 veins ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; veins pitchy towards the tips ; 

 tip cross-vein forming a right angle with the fourth longitudinal vein, 

 which sends forth a stump beyond it, 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 with 

 two curves, the lower slight and inward, the upper outward and 

 more distinct ; scales pale yellow ; poisers tawny. Length of the 

 body 7 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. Brazil. From Mrs. Noel's collection. 



Tachina Amisias, n. s. Fulva, thorace fiavo-fusco vittis quinque 

 nigris, abdominis apice nigro, antennis fulvis articulo 3° nigro, 

 pedibus fulvis, alis subfuscis. 



Head tawny, covered with pale yellow down, beset with a few 

 black bristles, more thickly clothed beneath with yellow hairs; cavity 

 between the eyelets and the feelers brown, its borders grayish tawny 

 and beset with black bristles ; epistoma not prominent ; sides of the 

 face fringed with bristles for one-third of the length from the base ; 

 sucker tawny, clothed with a few yellow hairs ; palpi tawny, beset 

 with black bristles : eyes red, with a slight brassy tint, clothed with 

 pale yellow down: feelers tawny, shorter than the face ; third joint 

 black, nearly linear, deeper than that of T. Anthemon, very slightly 

 concave above, flat beneath, rounded at the tip, almost twice the 

 length of the second joint ; bristle black, tapering, much more than 

 twice the length of the third feeler-joint, its second joint short, but 

 not longer than the first: chest yellowish brown, adorned with five 

 interrupted black stripes, beset with black bristles; scutcheon taw- 

 ny ; breast tawny, covered with a hoary bloom, clothed with short 

 yellow hairs : abdomen pale tawny, beset with black bristles, these 

 are mostly towards the tip, which is black : legs pale tawny, rather 

 long, especially the middle pair, beset with black bristles ; tips of 

 the claws black ; foot-cushions yellow : wings light brown ; wing- 

 ribs tawny ; veins pitchy ; tip cross-vein, like that of the preceding 

 species, forming a very slightly obtuse angle with the fourth longi- 

 tudinal vein ; lower cross-vein with two curves, the lower inward, 

 shorter and more distinct than the upper, which is outward ; scales 

 brown ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 

 11 lines. 



a. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



