788 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



clothed behind and beneath with yellowish white hairs ; a black 

 stripe extends from the feelers to the eyelets, on approaching which 

 it gradually disappears ; sides of the face fringed with bristles for 

 nearly two-thirds of the length from the base ; epistoma prominent : 

 eyes dark red, not hairy : sucker black, pitchy, and clothed with 

 tawny hairs towards the tip ; palpi ferruginous, slender, beset with 

 black bristles : feelers ferruginous, shorter than the face ; third 

 joint of the male longer than that of the female, much more than 

 twice the length of the second joint, pitchy, linear, truncated at the 

 tip ; third joint of the female more than twice the length of the 

 second, rather deep, flat above slightly convex beneath, very ob- 

 liquely truncated at the tip; bristle pitchy, nearly twice the length 

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

 one-third of the length, very slender from thence to the tip : chest 

 covered with dark tawny bloom, very indistinctly striped, paler and 

 with a hoary tinge on each side and beneath ; scutcheon armed with 

 a few long black spines ; abdomen long-obconical, much longer 

 than the chest, adorned with three short whitish bands on the fore 

 borders of the segments ; third band much broader than the pre- 

 ceding, and having a tawny tinge on the hinder part : legs black, 

 thickly clothed with black hairs and bristles ; thighs and shanks 

 slightly covered with hoary bloom ; foot-cushions tawny : wings 

 slightly gray, yellowish, white at the base ; wing-ribs ferruginous ; 

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

 almost a right angle with the fourth longitudinal vein, very slightly 

 curved inward, joining the border far above the tip of the wing ; 

 lower cross-vein with a slight inward curve from the base till near 

 the tip, whence it is straight ; scales dingy white with tawny borders. 

 Length of the body 5^ — 6 lines ; of the wings 11 — 12 lines. 

 a. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



Tachina violenta, n. s. mas. Picea,fulvo tecta, thorace subvittato, 

 abdominefulvo trifasciato, palpis antennisque ferrugineis, harum 

 articulo 3° piceo, pedibus nigris, alls subcinereis basi flavo- 

 albis. 

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

 a golden tawny covering, thickly clothed behind and beneath with 

 tawny hairs ; a black stripe extends from the feelers towards the 

 eyelets on approaching which it gradually disappears; sides of the 

 face fringed with bristles for nearly two-thirds of the length ; epis- 

 toma slightly prominent : eyes dark red, not hairy : sucker black, 

 pitchy and clothed with tawny hairs towards the tip ; palpi ferru- 

 ginous, slender, beset with black bristles : feelers ferruginous, a little 

 shorter than the face ; third joint pitchy, linear, slightly rounded at 



