760 LIST OF D1PTERA. 



Tachina trixoides, n. s. Cinerea, capite ferrugineo, thorace vittis 

 quinque nigris, abdomine nigro-piceo cano micante, antennis 

 rujis, pedibus nigris, alis sub finer -eis. 



Body black : head pale ferruginous, black above aud behind, 

 beset with a few black hairs and bristles, clothed beneath with pale 

 tawny hairs ; sides of the face without bristles except at the base ; 

 epistoma not prominent : eyes pitchy, not hairy ; sucker ferrugi- 

 nous, clothed with short pale tawny hairs : feelers pale red, much 

 shorter than the face ; second joint very short ; third joint short, but 

 longer than the second, nearly linear, rounded at the tip ; bristle 

 black, downy, tapering; first and second joints short: chest gray, 

 clothed with black hairs and bristles, adorned with five indistinct 

 black stripes ; scutcheon covered with long black spines : abdomen 

 pitchy-black, with hoary reflections, clothed with black hairs, armed 

 towards the tip with some long black spines : legs black, clothed 

 with black hairs and bristles ; foot-cushions pale tawny : wings light 

 gray ; wing-ribs taw r ny ; veins pitchy, pale towards the base ; tip 

 cross-vein forming a right angle with the fourth longitudinal vein, 

 which sends forth a stump beyond it, much curved inward near the 

 base, straight from thence to the tip, joining the border at some dis- 

 tance above the tip of the wing ; lower cross-vein curved inward 

 near the base, almost straight from thence to the tip ; scales white, 

 with pale yellow borders. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the 

 wings 11 lines. 

 a. Georgia. 



Tachina Bura, n. s. Fulva, thoracis disco abdomineque nigris, hoc 

 maculis fasciisque albis ornato illo antice albo vittato, palpis an- 

 tennis pedibtisque fulvis, alis fusco-cinereis basi fulvis. 

 Head bright tawny, rather darker ou the crown, clothed beneath 

 with tawny hairs, and above with some black hairs, beset on each 

 side of the mouth with a few black bristles ; sides of the face with- 

 out bristles except at the base ; epistoma prominent ; eyes pitchy, 

 not hairy ; palpi tawny, slender, clothed with tawny hairs : feelers 

 bright reddish tawny, much shorter than the face ; second joint 

 linear, slender, almost truncated at the tip, longer than the second 

 joint ; bristle black, tapering, nearly twice the length of the third 

 joint, its second joint short, but longer than the first: chest and 

 breast tawny, clothed with tawny hairs ; disk of the chest black, 

 clothed with short black hairs, adorned with white reflections which 

 form four short stripes on the fore part: abdomen deep black, 

 clothed with black hairs, its back adorned near the base with two 

 white spots, and from the middle to the tip with short connected 



