278 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
base, not reaching the epistoma ; fourth, fifth, and sixth tawny ; fourth and 
fifth short; siath very stout, shorter than the third: abdomen almost bare, 
broader and a little longer than the chest: wings gray, yellow towards the 
base; veins tawny, black towards the tips ; prebrachial vein forming aright 
angle at its flexure, near which it is bent inward, straight from thence to 
the tip; ‘lower cross-vein with the two curves which are very slight: alule 
yellow. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 11 lines. 
United States. 
TACHINA GRANDIS. 
Nigra, cinerascens ; caput albidum; thorax antice nigro quadrivitiatus ; 
scutellum ferrugineum ; antenne nigra, basi et subtus fulve; pedes 
nigri; ale subcinerea, basi lutee, ad venas fusce. 
Fam. Microcerate; Gen. Nemoraa. Fem. Black, with a gray cover- 
ing: head with a whitish covering, clothed behind and beneath with pale 
yellow hairs; frontalia deep black, widening from the eyelets to the feelers ; 
face tawny, with a silvery white covering; epistoma slightly prominent ; 
lateralia deep red; facialia of the face bristly along half the length from 
the base: mouth pitchy; palpi tawny: feelers tawny; third joint black 
above, linear, darker towards the tip which is rounded, near twice the length 
of the second joint; orifice a little before the middle of the length, very 
near the under side; bristle black; fourth and fifth joints very short; 
sixth minutely pubescent: fore part of the shield with four black stripes ; 
seutcheon ferruginous: legs black; claws tawny with black tips; onychia 
yellow: wings pale gray, brown about the borders of the veins, luleous at the 
base ; veins pitchy, luteous at the base; prebrachial vein forming a slightly 
acute angle at its flexure, near which it is curved inward, almost straight 
from thence to the tip; lower cross vein very indistinctly curved inward 
near its base, distinctly curved outward near its tip: alule with a pale 
yellow tinge, their borders brighter: halteres yellow. Length of the body 
7% lines; of the wings 18 lines. : 
East Indies. 
