772 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



the wing ; lower cross-vein with two very slight curves, the lower 

 inward, the other outward; scales yellowish with darker borders. 

 Length of the body 3£ lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 

 a. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Tachina ? 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



Tachina Sosicles, n. s. Nigra, abdomine fiavo-cano, segmentorum 

 marginibus posticis vitta dorsali palpis antennis pedibusque nigris, 

 alls cinereis. 



Body black, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; sides of the 

 face without bristles ; epistoma not prominent : moutb, palpi, and 

 feelers black ; feelers as long as the face ; third joint nearly linear, 

 full twice the length of the second, flat above, slightly convex 

 beneath, obliquely truncated at the tip ; bristle a little longer than 

 the third joint, its first joint obsolete ; second short ; third stout for 

 full one-third of the length, slender from thence to the tip; abdomen 

 obconical, not longer than the chest, adorned with yellowish hoary 

 reflections, which are interrupted on the hind borders of the seg- 

 ments, and by a middle stripe : legs black, clothed with black hairs 

 and bristles: wings gray; wing-ribs and veins black ; lip cross-vein 

 forming a very obtuse angle with the fourth longitudinal vein, 

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

 joining the border at some distance above the tip of the wing ; lower 

 cross-vein straight; scales dingy, with whitish tawny borders. Length 

 of the body 2 lines; of the wings 3^ lines. 



Tachina luctuosa, Meig. Dipt. iv. 347, 185. Medina luctuosa, 



Desv. Essai Myod. 140, 6. 

 a. England. 



Tachina Zebina, n. s. Nigro-cinerea, capite aureo, thorace vittis 

 quatuor nigris, scutelln ferrugineo, abdomine fasciis canis ornato, 

 palpis f err ugineis, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis cinereis, basi 

 fuscis. 



Body broad, black, slightly curved with gray bloom, clothed with 

 black hairs and bristles: head golden, velvet-like, thickly clothed 

 behind and beneath with pale yellow hairs, tawny and partly covered 

 with a hoary bloom beneath, having a tawny hue on the sides of 

 the crown, the middle part being occupied by a black stripe, which 

 extends from the eyelets to the feelers ; face whitish, its sides 



