LIST OF DIPTERA. 781 



slightly bends outward, joining the border at some distance above 

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

 lower inward, shorter and much more distinct than the other which 

 is outward ; scales dingy white, with tawny borders. Length of the 

 body 4i lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 

 a. France? 



Tachina Tpthime, n. s. Nigro-cinerea, capite antico Jlavo, abdo- 

 mine basi rufo, palpis fulvis, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis 

 subcinereis basi fulvis. 



Body grayish black, clothed with black hairs and bristles : 

 head bright yellow in front, and on the face, ferruginous along the 

 sides of the face, having a dark ferruginous stripe between the eye- 

 lets and the feelers ; epistoma prominent : eyes pitchy, not hairy ; 

 sucker black, clothed with pale tawny hairs : palpi tawny, not bristly : 

 feelers black, as long as the face; first and second joints red ; third 

 linear, or hardly convex above and beneath, nearly truncated at the 

 tip, less than twice the length of the second joint; bristle about 

 twice the length of the third joint, its first joint obsolete; second 

 rather long; third somewhat stout for nearly one-fourth of its 

 length, slender, tapering and downy from thence to the tip : abdo- 

 men elliptical, longer than the chest, red on nearly the whole of the 

 first segment, and on the sides of the second segment : legs black, 

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

 wings slightly gray, tawny at the base ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; 

 veins armed with bristles, pitchy towards the tips ; tip cross-vein 

 forming an extremely obtuse angle or rather curve with the fourth 

 longitudinal vein, nearly straight for half its length, very slightly 

 curved inward from thence to the tip, joining the border a little 

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

 at the base, almost straight from thence to the tip. Length of the 

 body 4 Hues ; of the wings 7 lines. 

 a. France. 



Tachina Diabolus, Wied. Auss. Ziveif. ii. 302, 38. Ocyptera Dia- 



bolus, Wied. Zool. Mag. iii. 26, 39. 

 a. Cape. 



Tachina Imbrasus, n. s. Nigra, angusta, plumbeo ex parte tecta, 

 capite aureo, thorace nigro quadrivittato, abdomine cano tri- 

 vittato, palpis antennis pedibus alisque nigris. 



Body black, rather long and narrow, partly covered with bluish 

 gray bloom, clothed with black hairs and bristles: head bright 



