LIST OF DIPTERA. 769 



with broad irregular bands of hoary lustre, which has a yellowish 

 tinge, is chiefly prevalent on each side, and is interrupted on the 

 back by a slender black stripe : legs black, clothed with black hairs 

 and bristles ; foot-cushions dark tawny : wings gray ; wing-ribs 

 tawny ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; tip cross-vein forming 

 a very slightly obtuse angle with the fourth longitudinal vein, very 

 slightly curved inward, joining the border at some distance above 

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

 slight and inward, the upper outward and almost imperceptible ; 

 scales dingy white. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 5^ 

 lines. 

 a. China. Presented by G. T. Lay, Esq. 



Tachina Menapis, n. s. Cano-fulva, gracilis, capile antice albido, 

 thorace subvittato, palpis fulvis, antennis rufis, articulo 3° ferru- 

 gineo, pedibus fulvis,tarsis nigris, alis cinereis angustis basi sub- 

 fulvis. 



Body slender, pale tawny, with a hoary tinge, not shining, 

 thinly clothed with black hairs and bristles : head whitish in front ; 

 no bristles on the tawny sides of the face ; epistoma not prominent : 

 eyes bright red, not hairy : sucker black, clothed at the tip with 

 pale hairs ; palpi tawny, long, slender, beset with black bristles : 

 feelers pale red, nearly as long as the face ; third joint ferruginous, 

 linear, red at the base, rounded at the tip, about four times the 

 length of the second joint; bristle more than twice the length of the 

 third joint, its first and second joints very short, third joint tapering 

 from the base to the tip : chest indistinctly striped with darker co- 

 lour : abdomen elliptical, a little longer than the chest : legs tawny, 

 rather long and slender, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; 

 shanks darker than the thighs ; feet black : wings gray, rather long 

 and narrow, with a tawny tinge at the base ; wing-ribs and veins 

 tawny ; veins pitchy towards the tips ; tip cross-vein forming an ex- 

 tremely obtuse angle with the fourth longitudinal vein, hardly 

 curved inward, nearly straight, joining the border a very little above 

 the tip of the wing ; lower cross-vein nearly straight ; scales white, 

 with yellow borders. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 6^ 

 lines. 



a. Upsal, Sweden. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



Group VI. Olinda, Desv. Essai Myod. 116. 

 Group VII. Platymya, Desv. Essai Myod. 116, 



