700 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Miltogramma Megerlei ? Meig. Dipt. iv. 233, 14. Cana, abdo- 

 minis segmentorum marginibus posticis fulvis, antennis fulvis ar- 

 ticulo 3° piceo, pedibus nigris, alis limpidis. 

 Body hoary, clothed with black hairs and bristles : head tawny 

 on the crown, yellow in front, gray beneath ; epistoma not promi- 

 nent; no bristles on the sides of the face: eyes red, not hairy; 

 sucker black, clothed at the tip with tawny hairs; palpi tawny: 

 feelers very short, tawny, not more than half the length of the face ; 

 third joint pitchy, very slightly convex above and beneath, rounded 

 at the tip, full twice the length of the third joint ; bristle very short, 

 but longer than the third joint, its second joint about twice the 

 length of the first; third joint stout, but tapering to the tip: abdo- 

 men obconical, not longer than the chest ; hind borders of the seg- 

 ments tawny : legs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; foot- 

 cushions tawny : wings colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins pitchy, 

 tawny at the base ; tip cross-vein forming a right angle with the 

 fourth longitudinal vein, curved inward near the base, straight from 

 thence to the tip, joining the border above the tip of the wing; 

 lower cross-vein straight for nearly half its length, slightly curved 

 outward from thence to the tip ; scales white, with buff borders. 

 Length of the body 2| lines ; of the wings 4^ lines. 

 a. England. 



Tachina, Fabricius. 



Div. A. Macromydae, Desv. Essai. Myod. 32. 



Group I. 



Third joint of the feelers nearly twice the length of the 

 second, very convex above, flat beneath, rounded at the tip; second 

 joint of the bristle more than twice the length of th.e first. 



Tachina melanax, n. s. Atra, spinosissima, capite albo, antennis 

 pedibusque nigris, tarsis albis, alis nigris. 



Body deep black, clothed with black hairs and bristles : abdo- 

 men armed with very thick close-set black spines, which especially 

 characterize this species : head white, clothed beneath with white 

 hairs, beset above with black bristles ; crown black ; peristoma pale 

 yellow ; epistoma very prominent ; no bristles on the sides of the 

 face; sucker black, pitchy and clothed with a few short whitish 

 hairs towards the tip ; palpi black, spindle-shaped, long, not much 

 shorter than the sucker, clothed with short black hairs : eyes pitchy, 

 not hairy : feelers black, covered with whitish bloom ; third joint 

 nearly twice the length of the second, flat beneath, rounded at the 



