266 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
f. Facialia without bristles. , 
cincta. 
Sf. Facialia bristly. 
nigrifera, atrata, ruficornis. 
TacuINna srmitis, Mas. 
Testacea; thoracis discus cinereo-niyer ; abdomen flavo nitens, nigro 
vittatum, apice ferrugineum ; antenne nigre, basi et subtus fulve ; 
pedes testacet ; ale subcinerea, basi subfulve. 
Testaceous : frontalia pale ferruginous, widening from the eyelets to 
the feelers: epistoma prominent: eyes very hairy: feelers tawny ; third 
joint black above and towards the tip, nearly straight above, rounded at the 
tip, twice the length of the second joint; fourth, fifth and sixth black; 
fifth longer than the fourth: disk of the chest black, tinged with gray: ab- 
domen with pale yellow reflections and with a black stripe ; tip ferruginous : 
legs testaceous ; tips of the feet pitchy: wings very slightly gray, with a 
tawny tinge at the base; veins tawny ; cross-veins black; prebrachial vein 
forming a right angle at its flexure, slightly inclined inward from thence 
to its tip, which approaches very near the cubital vein ; lower cross- 
vein with the two usual curves which are distinct: alule whitish, with 
tawny borders: halteres yellow. Length of the body 4% lines; of the 
wings 9 lines. 
_ New South Wales. 
1. TacHINA PILOSA. 
Musca pilesa? Drury. 
Nigra ; caput cinereo-fulvum, antice et subtus albidum ; antenne arti- 
culo 30 basi subtus ferrugineo ; thorax cinerascens, nigro vittatus ; 
abdomen basi utrinque et subtus rufescens ; ale cineree, basi luride. 
Black: head grayish-tawny above, whitish in front and beneath : tip 
of the mouth ferruginous ; palpi tawny: third joint of the feelers tinged 
with gray, ferruginous beneath towards the base: chest grayish, with slender 
indistinct and interrupted black stripes : abdomen deep black, slightly red 
