274 "INSECTA SAUNDDPRSIANA. 
eyes bare: palpi tawny: feelers ferruginous; third joint blackish and 
convex above, a little longer than the second ; fourth, fifth and sixth black ; 
fifth about twice the length of the fourth: chest with a hoary covering, 
which is interrupted by three slender black stripes: abdomen armed with 
black spines: wings gray; veins black, tawny towards the base; prebra- 
chial vein forming a right angle at its flexure, curved slightly inward near 
the flexure, straight from thence to the tip ; lower cross-vein almost straight, 
the curves being very indistinct: alule white. Length of the body 5 
lines; of the wings 10 lines. 
Georgia. 
TACHINA TRANSVERSA. 
Testacea ; scutum auratum, nigro 4-vittatum ; abdomen apice nigrum ; 
antenne nigre basi ferruginee ; pedes fulvi ; ale fusco-cineree. 
Mas. Testaceous : head with a whitish covering, clothed behind and 
beneath with yellow hairs; frontalia pale ferruginous, widening much from 
the eyelets to the feelers ; epistoma not prominent: eyes bare: feelers fer- 
ruginous; third and following joints black ; third ferruginous at the base : 
shield black, with a gilded covering, which is interrupted by four black 
stripes: abdomen black towards the tip, armed with black spines: legs 
tawny : wings brownish gray ; veins black, tawny at the base; prebrachial 
vein forming a slightly acute angle at its flexure, and near this an obtuse 
angle, straight from thence to the tip ; lower cross-vein with the two usual 
curves which are very slight: alule pale grayish tawny. Length of the 
body 43—5} lines; of the wings 10—12 lines, 
Brazil. 
Tacuina oprusa, Mas et Fem. 
Testacea; caput flavum; thoracis discus cinereus ; abdomen nigro vitta- 
tum ; antenne picee, basi et subtus fulve ; ale cinerea, basi fulve. 
Testaceous : head yellow, thickly clothed beneath with pale yellow 
hairs; front region tawny ; front thinly beset with bristles; interfrontalia 
indistinct ; facialia without bristles till near the epistoma, which is promi- 
nent; lateralia thinly clothed with pale yellow hairs: feelers bright tawny ; 
third joint pitchy, tawny beneath, very convex aboye, a little shorter than 
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