736 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Tachina fulgens, Meig. Dipt. iv. 259, 34, pi. 41, /. 23. Zett. 

 Dipt. Scand. iii. 1096, 93. Linnaemyia Heraelaei, Desv. Essai 

 Myod. 53, 3. Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 2me serie, ii. 31, 2. L. 

 analis, Desv. Essai Myod. 54, 4. L. borealis, Desv. Essai 

 Myod. 54, 7. L. aestivalis, Desv. Essai Myod. 54, 6. Micro- 

 palpus Heraelsei, Macq. Dipt. Nord. 181, 3. Hist. Nat. Dipt. 

 ii. 81, 3. Meig. Dipt. vii. 219, 14. M. analis, Macq. Hist. Nat. 

 Dipt. ii. 82, 4. M. borealis, Macq. Dipt. Nord. 182, 4. Hist. 

 Nat. Dipt. ii. 82, 5. iliW?. Z>?/tf. vii. 220, 15. M. fulgens, 

 Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. ii. 83, 10. Meig. Dipt. vii. 217, 1, pi. 

 7, /. 12—14. 



a. England. 



b. France. 



Tachina Orbilius, n. s. Plumbea, capite canomicante maculisque 

 duabus rufis ornatn, abdomine nigro-aneo, palpis fulvis, antennis 

 ferrugineis, articulo 3°nigris basi ferrugineo,pedibus ferrugineis, 

 tarsis nigris, alis albidis basi subfulvis. 



Body black: head covered with hoary lustre, thinly clothed 

 with black hairs, beset with black bristles : a large red spot on each 

 side of the face, which has a broad tawny border, and is fringed 

 with bristles on each side of the base ; epistoma slightly prominent : 

 eyes dark red, hairy : sucker ferruginous, clothed with short tawny 

 hairs ; palpi tawny, beset with a few black bristles : feelers ferrugi- 

 nous, a little shorter than the face ; third joint black, ferruginous at 

 the base, about twice the length of the second joint, nearly linear, 

 but slightly decreasing in depth from the base to the tip, which is 

 rounded ; bristle black, about twice the length of the third feeler- 

 joint, its second joint hardly twice the length of the first ; third 

 joint stout for about one-third of its length, very slender from 

 thence to the tip : chest and breast covered with a bluish gray 

 bloom, clothed with black hairs : abdomen brassy, clothed with short 

 black hairs, beset with black bristles : legs ferruginous, clothed 

 with black hairs and bristles ; shanks darker than the thighs ; feet 

 black ; claws tawny at the base ; foot-cushions dingy white : wings 

 whitish, slightly tawny at the base ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; 

 veins black towards the tips ; little cross-vein in the disk angular, 

 clouded with brown ; lower cross-vein slightly curved near the base, 

 almost straight from thence to the tip ; tip cross-vein forming an ob- 

 tuse angle with the fourth longitudinal vein, having an indistinct 

 inward curve near the base, straight from thence to the tip, which 

 joins the border at some distance above the tip of the wing ; scales 

 dingy white, bordered with yellow ; poisers pale tawny. Length of 

 the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 

 a. England. 



