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272 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA.- 
antennaria ferruginous: proboscis black, tip ferruginous: palpi black with 
tawny tips: feelers black; third joint almost flat above, convex beneath, 
almost truncated at the tip, shorter and much deeper than the second : 
chest with a very slight gray covering : abdomen very shining, dark red, 
with a black dorsal stripe which does not reach the tip: shanks dark red : 
wings gray, whitish at the base; alulw white ; prebrachial vein forming an 
obtuse angle at its flexure, near which it is very slightly curved inward ; 
lower cross-vein very slightly undulating. Length of the body 7 lines; of 
the wings 14 lines. 
East Indies. 
Tacuina sopria, Mas. 
Fulva; thorax glaucus ; abdomen ferrugineum, vittatum, segmentis postice 
fulvis ; femora nigra ; ale subcineree. 
Head and chest with a tawny covering : head thinly beset above with 
black bristles, thickly clothed beneath with pale yellow hairs ; frontalia 
ferruginous; interfrontalia indistinct; face silvery white; facialia with a 
row of bristles which do not extend above the epistoma: proboscis pitchy : 
palpi tawny, very slender, rather short: feelers black; third joint deep, 
straight above, convex beneath, truncated at the tip, much shorter than 
the second joint and about twice its depth: chest glaucous; scutcheon 
tawny : abdomen ferruginous with a broad dorsal stripe ; hind borders of 
the segments tawny : legs tawny; thighs black: wings slightly gray; pre- 
brachial vein forming a right angle at its flexure and an obtuse angle 
nearer its tip: lower cross-vein undulating: alule pale gray, with tawny 
borders. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 
East Indies. 
TACHINA SUBCINEREA, Mas. 
Glauca, cinereo-fulvo tecta ; scutellum fuluum ; abdomen apice luteo hir- 
tum ; pedes fulvi, femoribus nigris ; ale subcineree, basi fulve. 
Slightly glaucous, with a grayish tawny covering, clothed with tawny 
hairs: head gray above and beset with black hairs and bristles, thickly 
clothed behind and beneath with pale yellow hairs ; frontalia dark ferru- 
ginous, of equal breadth; interfrontalia indistinct; face pale yellow ; 
