742 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



minent : sucker black, clothed at the tip with short tawny hairs : 

 eyes red, with a brassy tinge, not hairy : feelers ferruginous, very 

 short, half the length of the face ; third joint nearly elliptical, longer 

 than the second, but not much deeper; bristle black, tapering, stout 

 near the base, very slender towards the tip, more than twice the 

 length of the third feeler-joint, its first and second joints of mode- 

 rate and equal length : chest and breast dark gray : chest clothed 

 with black hairs and bristles ; sides slightly ferruginous ; scutcheon 

 ferruginous : abdomen tawny, rather long and narrow, nearly cylin- 

 drical, tapering towards the tip, thinly beset with short black bristles, 

 armed on the sides of the hind borders of the segments and at the 

 tip with black spines, black at the base, and having an interrupted 

 black stripe from the middle to the tip of the back : legs tawny, 

 clothed with black hairs, beset with black bristles ; feet black; foot- 

 cushions tawny : wings slightly gray ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins 

 pitchy ; tip cross-vein forming a right angle with the fourth longi- 

 tudinal vein, which sends forth a short stump beyond it, very slightly 

 curved along the whole length, joining the border at some distance 

 above the tip of the wing ; lower cross-vein with two curves, the 

 lower inward and very distinct, the other outward and very slight ; 

 scales pale tawny. Length of the body 5| lines; of the wings 10 

 lines. 

 a. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. A. Sinclair. 



Group VI. 



Tachina Scotinus, n. s. Cinerea, capite antico fewugineo, abdomi- 

 nis lateribus canis, anlennis pedibusque nigris, alis subcinereis 

 basi et ad costam subfuscis. 



Body gray : head beset with black hairs and bristles, somewhat 

 ferruginous in front ; face white, its sides fringed with bristles ; 

 epistoma slightly prominent : eyes red : feelers black, as long as the 

 face ; third joint very long, full four times the length of the second, 

 hardly concave above, more convex beneath, obliquely truncated at 

 the tip ; bristle stout for about two-thirds of its length, very slender 

 from thence to the tip, its second joint very long, full twice the 

 length of the first : chest clothed with black hairs, beset with long 

 black bristles : abdomen cylindrical, rather narrow, much longer 

 than the chest, beset with black hairs and bristles : wings slightly 

 gray, with a brown tinge at the base and along the fore borders*; 

 wing-ribs pitchy : veins black ; tip cross-vein forming an obtuse an- 

 gle with the fourth longitudinal vein, very slightly curved inward 

 along the whole length, joining the border a short distance above 



