786 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



length of the second joint ; bristle about twice the length of the. 

 third joint, its second joint of moderate length, about twice the 

 length of the first joint; third joint stout for more than one third of 

 the length, when it is adorned with a red band, slender from thence 

 to the tip : chest adorned with three slender hoary stripes ; middle 

 stripe double; sides tinged with yellow; scutcheon very dark ferru- 

 ginous ; breast hoary ; abdomen obconical, not longer than the chest, 

 adorned with a large bluish white spot on each side of every seg- 

 ment, across whose fore border there is a narrow band of the same 

 colour : legs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; foot- 

 cushions tawny: wings nearly colourless; wing-ribs tawny; veins 

 black ; tip cross-vein forming a slightly obtuse angle with the fourth 

 longitudinal vein, slightly curved inward near the base, nearly 

 straight from thence to the tip, which joins the border at some dis- 

 tance above the tip of the wing ; lower cross-vein with a slight 

 inward curve, extending nearly along its whole length. Length of 

 the body 5 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 

 a. West Australia. From Mr. Clifton's collection. 



Tachina flavicans, Wied. Zool. Mag. iii. 24, 36. Auss. Zweif. ii. 



324, 79. 

 a. Cape. 



Tachina Epicydes, n. s. Nigro-cinerea, capite cano micante, palpis 

 fulvis, antennis pedibusque nigris, tibiis basifulvis, alls subci- 

 nereis. 



Body grayish black, clothed with black hairs and bristles : 

 front of the head adorned with hoary lustre ; a ferruginous stripe 

 on each side of the peristoma ; sides of the face without bristles, 

 except at the base ; epistoma not prominent : eyes red, hairy : sucker 

 pitchy, clothed with tawny hairs ; palpi stout, tawny, beset with 

 black bristles : feelers black, a little shorter than the face ; third 

 joint about twice the length of the second, flat above, till near the 

 tip where it rises, rather convex beneath, slightly rounded at the 

 tip; bristle more than twice the length of the third joint, its first 

 joint obsolete ; second very short ; third slender, tapering from the 

 base to the tip : abdomen nearly oval, very little longer than the 

 chest: legs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles; shanks 

 tawny at the base ; foot-cushions yellow : wings slightly gray ; 

 wing-ribs dark tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; tip cross- 

 vein forming a slightly obtuse angle with the fourth longitudinal 

 vein, straight for one-fourth of the length, and having a very slight 

 inward curve from them to the tip, joining the border a little above 

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



