758 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Tachina Enarette, n. s. Cana, capite antico ferrugineo, scutello ab- 

 domineque fulvis, huic vitta nigra, palp is antennisque fulvis, 

 horum articulo 3° piceo, pedibus nigris, alis limpidis basi sub- 

 jiavis. 



Head covered with a hoary bloom, black above, tawny in front ; 

 a ferruginous stripe on the crown, widening from the eyelets to the 

 base of the feelers ; epistoma yellow, very prominent ; sides of the 

 face fringed with hairs at the base : sucker pitchy ; palpi tawny : 

 eyes red, not hairy ; feelers tawny, very short, hardly more than 

 half the length of the face ; third joint pitchy, tawny at the base, 

 flat above, convex beneath, truncated at the tip, much longer than 

 the second joint ; bristle black, downy, tapering, tawuy at the base, 

 about thrice the length of the third feeler-joint ; its first and second 

 joints short, of equal length : chest covered with hoary down, thickly 

 beset with black bristles ; scutcheon tawny : abdomen not much 

 longer than the chest, tawny, covered with hoary bloom, clothed 

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

 with a black stripe along the back : legs black, clothed with black 

 hairs and bristles : wings colourless, with a yellowish tinge towards 

 the base ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; tip cross-vein nearly straight, 

 joining the longitudinal vein a little before the tip of the wing ; 

 lower cross-vein with two curves, the lower inward, the upper out- 

 ward ; scales white. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 

 lines. 



a. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Tachina Nysas, n. s. Cinerea, capite scutellique margine postico 

 fulvis, abdomine fulvo vitta dorsali maculisque utrinque nigris, 

 palpis fulvis, antennis ferrugineis, pedibus fulvis, femoribus ni- 

 gris, alis subfulvis. 



Head tawny, pale yellow in front, beset with a very few black 

 bristles ; side clothed with a few white hairs ; sides of the face with- 

 out bristles except at the base ; epistoma prominent : sucker black ; 

 palpi tawny, long, slender, beset with black bristles : eyes red, not 

 hairy : feelers ferruginous, very short, not so long as the face ; third 

 joint a little longer than the second, nearly linear, flat above, 

 slightly convex beneath, obliquely truncated at the tip ; bristle 

 black, tapering, slender, thrice the length of the third joint, its first 

 and second joints very short: chest and breast dark gray ; chest be- 

 set with black hairs and bristles; hind border of the scutcheon taw- 

 ny ; breast partly clothed with tawny hairs : abdomen tawny, 

 clothed with black hairs, beset with a few black bristles on the hind 

 borders of the segments and towards the tip, adorned with a black 



