LIST OF DIPTERA. 791 



lustre, clothed beneath with hoary hairs, ferruginous on each side 

 of the epistoma, which is not prominent ; sides of the face fringed 

 with hairs at the base ; eyes red, not hairy : sucker black, ferrugi- 

 nous and clothed with tawny hairs at the tip : palpi black, beset 

 with black bristles : feelers black, shorter than the face ; third joint 

 a little more than twice the length of the second, very slightly convex 

 above and beneath, obliquely truncated at the tip ; bristle tapering, 

 downy, rather more than twice the length of the third joint, its first 

 joint obsolete ; second very short : third rather stout for about one- 

 fourth of the length, slender from thence to the tip : chest gray with 

 two indistinct black stripes; scutcheon dark ferruginous towards the 

 tip : abdomen sowewhat pitchy, nearly oval, not longer than the 

 chest, adorned with hoary reflections which are chiefly on each side 

 of the fore borders of the segments, and have a tessellated appear- 

 ance ; second ferruginous on each side : legs black, clothed with 

 black hairs and bristles; thighs and shanks with a slight hoary 

 tinge ; foot-cushions tawny : wings slightly gray, tinged towards the 

 base with pale tawny; shoulders tawny; wing-ribs pitchy; veins 

 black, pitchy towards the base; tip cross-vein forming a very slightly 

 obtuse angle with the fourth longitudinal vein, a little curved in- 

 ward along the whole length, joining the border a short distance 

 above the tip of the wing ; lower cross-vein with two hardly percep- 

 tible curves, the lower inward, the other outward ; scales dingy white 

 with pale tawny borders. Length of the body 4^ lines ; of the wings 

 9 lines. 



- ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Tachina Astytos, n. s. Nigra, lata, capite ad os fulvo, facie alba, 



thorace cinereo subvittato, abdominis lateribus ferrugineis, an- 



tennis ferrugineis, articulo 3° palpisque nigris, pedibus nigris, 



tarsis piceis, alis sublimpidis. 



Body rather broad, black, clothed with black hairs and bristles : 



head pale tawny in front, clothed beneath with hoary hairs, brown 



on the crown, epistoma prominent ; face white, its sides ferruginous ; 



fringed with bristles along full half the length from the base : eyes 



dark red, hairy ; sucker black, clothed with tawny hairs ; palpi black, 



beset with black bristles ; feelers ferruginous ; third joint black, 



bristle tapering, stout : chest gray, indistinctly striped : scutcheon 



ferruginous, armed with a few long black spines ; abdomen obconical, 



black, a little shorter than the chest, ferruginous on each side; legs 



black, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; thighs and shanks 



tinged with gray ; feet pitchy ; foot-cushions tawny ; wings nearly 



colourless, whitish at the base ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny 



towards the base ; tip cross-vein forming an obtuse angle with the 



