LIST OF OIPTEilA. 735 



Group II. Linnsemyia, Desv. Essai Myod. 52. 



Tachina Titan, n. s. Nigra, scutello nigro-ferrugineo, abdomine 

 ferrugineo, nigro vittato, antennis fulvis, articulo 3° nigro, pedi- 

 bus nigris, alls subcinereis basi et ad costam fulvis , venis fusco 

 nebulosis. 



Body deep black: head slightly covered with ferruginous bloom, 

 beset with black hairs and bristles ; epistoma slightly prominent ; 

 face dull tawny, its sides fringed with bristles along one-third of the 

 length from the base ; sucker black, ferruginous, and clothed with 

 tawny hairs at the tip ; palpi deep tawny, beset with black bristles : 

 eyes pitchy : feelers deep tawny, much shorter than the face ; third 

 joint black, linear, slender, rounded at the tip, longer than the se- 

 cond ; bristle black, slender, downy, tapering from the base to the 

 tip, full thrice the length of the third joint; its second joint of mo- 

 derate length, longer than the first: chest and breast very thickly 

 clothed with black hairs and bristles ; scutcheon very dark ferrugi- 

 nous with slight tawny reflections, beset with black bristles : abdo- 

 men ferruginous, clothed with short black hairs, and on each side 

 towards the tip with longer black hairs, beset with black bristles, 

 which are mostly towards the tip, adorned with a black stripe, which 

 decreases in breadth from the base to the tip : legs black, clothed 

 with black hairs and bristles ; claws and foot-cushions tawny ; tips 

 of the claws black : wings light gray, bright tawny towards the base 

 and along the fore borders for half the length ; wing-ribs ferrugi- 

 nous; veins tawny, pitchy, and distinctly bordered with brown in the 

 gray part of the wing ; tip cross-vein forming a right angle with the 

 fourth longitudinal vein, very slightly curved outward along the 

 whole length, joining the border at some distance above the tip of 

 the wing ; lower cross-vein slightly curved inward near the base, 

 straight from thence to the tip, where it is very slightly curved out- 

 ward; scales dingy white. Length of the body 10 lines; of the 

 wings 22 lines. 

 a. Silhet. 



Tachina vulpina, Fall. Muse. 23, 47, Meig. Dipt. iv. 260, 35. 

 Zett. Dipt. Scand. iii. 1087, 84. Linnasmyia sylvestris, Desv. 

 Essai Myod. 53, 2. L. vulpina, Desv. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 

 2me serie, ii. 30, 1 . Var. ? L. senanthis, Desv. Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 France, 2me serie, ii. 33, 3. JBonnetia senanthis, Desv. Essai 

 Myod. 56, 2. Micro palp us vulpinus, Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. ii. 

 81, 2. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 2me serie, iii. 270, 1, pi. 5, /. 1. 

 Meig. Dipt. vii. 217, 2, pi. 70, /. 18. Musca investigator? 

 Harr. Ex. 35, pi. 9, /. 3. 



a. England. 



b. ? 



