LIST OF DIPTERA. 



and equally convex beneath, obliquely truncated at the tip ; bristle 

 less than twice the length of the third joint, its first joint extremely 

 short ; second joint moderately long ; third joint stout for less than 

 half the length, slender from thence to the tip: chest adorned with 

 four hoary stripes ; breast hoary ; scutcheon ferruginous, armed at 

 the tip with some long black spines : abdomen pitchy-black, obco- 

 nical, longer than the chest; a large triangular hoary spot on each 

 side of the fore border of every segment : legs black, tinged with 

 gray, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; foot-cushions tawny : 

 wings nearly colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins pitchy, tawny to- 

 wards the base ; tip cross-vein forming an obtuse angle with the 

 fourth longitudinal vein, stout at the base, then curved inward for a 

 short space, and thence straight to the tip, joining the fore border at 

 a long distance from the tip of the wing ; lower cross-vein with two 

 curves, the lower inward, longer than the other which is outward ; 

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

 of the wings 10 lines. 

 a. Madras. Presented by Walter Elliot, Esq. 



Group III. Salia, Desv. Essai Myod. 108. 



Group IV. Athrycia, Desv. Essai Myod. 111. 



Group V. Lydella, Desv. Essai Myod. 112. 



Tachina funesta ? Meig. DiptAv. 346, 185. Zett. Dipt. Scand. iii. 

 1175, 178. Medoria funesta, Meig. Dipt. vii. 203, 1. 



a. ? 



Tachina Areos, n. s. Nigro-cenea, nitens, capite nigro, palpis an ten- 

 nis pedibusque nigris, alis limpidis basi fulvis. 

 Body brassy black, shining, clothed with black hairs and bris- 

 tles : head black, dull; epistoma not prominent; sides of the face 

 without bristles : eyes bright red, hairy : sucker and palpi black : 

 feelers black, as long as the face ; tip of the second joint ferrugi- 

 nous ; third joint long, slender, linear, about four times the length 

 of the second ; bristle stout, tapering, not much longer than the 

 ihird joint : abdomen nearly elliptical, a little longer than the chest: 

 legs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles : wings colourless, 

 tawny at the base ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; veins pitchy towards 

 the tips ; tip cross- vein forming a very obtuse angle or rather curve 

 with the fourth longitudinal vein, slightly curved inward, joining the 

 border a very little above the tip of the wing ; lower cross-vein very 

 slightly curved inward near the base, almost straight from thence to 



