774 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



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

 tip ; lower cross-vein with two curves, the lower slight and inward, 

 the other outward and more slight ; scales white, very large. Length 

 of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 

 a. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Tachina" Verritus, n. s. Nigra, capite flavo, thorace fulvescenle, 

 pectore cano, abdomine fasciis fulvis micante, palpis an tennis 

 pedibusque fulvis, alis cinereis, basi et ad costamfnscis. 



Body black, clothed with black hairs and bristles : head yellow, 

 velvet-like, clothed beneath with pale yellow hairs ; a black stripe 

 between the eyelets and the feelers ; face whitish, its sides fringed 

 with bristles along three-fourths of the length from the base ; 

 epistoma yellow, slightly prominent : eyes red, hairy : sucker pitchy, 

 beset with tawny hairs towards the tips ; palpi black, beset with 

 black bristles: feelers black, as long as the face; third joint six 

 times the length of the second, linear, or very slightly increasing in 

 depth from the base to the tip, which is slightly rounded ; bristle 

 more than twice the length of the third joint, its first joint obsolete, 

 second very short ; third rather stout for about one-third of its 

 length, very slender from thence to the tip: chest covered with 

 tawny bloom ; breast more hoary: abdomen obconical, a little longer 

 than the chest, adorned with broad bands of tawny lustre along the 

 fore borders of the segments ; first segment quite black : legs black, 

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

 gray, brownish at the base and along the fore borders ; wing-ribs 

 pitchy ; veins black, tawny at the base; tip cross-vein forming a very 

 slightly obtuse angle with the fourth longitudinal vein, slightly 

 curved' inward near the base, straight from thence to the lip, joining 

 the border at some distance above the tip of the wing ; lower cross- 

 vein with two very slight curves, the lower iuward, the other outward ; 

 scales white with yellow borders. Length of the body 4% lines ; of 

 the wings 7 lines. 

 a. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



Tachina Nepia, n. s. Carta, thorace vittis tribus nigris, scutello 

 fulvo, abdomine nigro fasciis canis ornato, palpis fulvis, antennis 

 pedibusque nigris, alis cinereis. 



Body black, covered with hoary bloom, clothed with black hairs 

 and bristles : head covered with white lustre, thickly clothed beneath 

 with pale tawny hairs, adorned with a broad pitchy stripe between 

 the eyelets and the feelers ; a ferruginous band on each side between 

 the eyes and the mouth ; sides of the face fringed with bristles along 



