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DIPTERA. 279 
TAacHINA AUsTRaALis, Mas. 
Nigra ; caput auratum, subtus canum ; thorax canescens, nigro quadri- 
wittatus ; abdomen albo-micans, lateribus basi Jerrugineum ; antenne 
bast ferruginee ; tibia postice ciliate ; ale cinerea, basi obscuriores. 
Fam. Faunide; Gen. Phryno? Black: head with a gold-colour 
covering, hoary beneath, clothed behind and beneath with pale yellow hairs ; 
facialia of the face without bristles; epistoma not prominent: eyes bare: 
mouth and palpi pitchy: feelers black ; first and second Joints ferruginous ; 
third linear, almost truncated at the tip, not reaching the epistoma, about 
twice the length of the second joint: chest with a hoary covering which is 
interrupted by four slender stripes ; scutcheon ferruginous : abdomen with 
white reflections about the fore borders of the segments ; second and third 
segments partly ferruginous on each side : legs black ; hind-shanks Fringed : 
wings gray, darker at the base ; veins black, pitchy towards the base and 
along the fore border; prebrachial yein forming a hardly acute angle at 
its flexure, slightly curved inward between this and its tip ; lower cross 
vein with two equally slight curves, the lower inward, the other ontward : 
alule dingy white: halteres tawny. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the 
wings 12 lines. 
New South Wales. 
TACHINA SQUAMATA, 
Aira; caput apud oculos auratum ; thoraw cervino quadrivittatus ; abdomen 
fusiforme, lateribus auratum ; pedes sat longi; ale cinerea, venis 
transversis bast et ad discum nigro marginatis. 
Mas. Deep black, narrow: head with a pale gilded covering along the 
eyes; frontalia widening from the eyelets to the feelers; facialia without 
bristles except at the base; epistoma not prominent: eyes bare: palpi 
black: feelers black; third joint straight above, slightly convex beneath, 
not nearly reaching the’epistoma, more than twice the length of the second ; 
sixth pubescent, stout towards the base, bare towards the tip, more than 
twice the length of the third: chest with four fawn-coloured stripes : abdo- 
men spindle-shaped, a little longer than the chest, with pale gilded reflec- 
tions on each side : legs rather long : wings gray; veins black; middle 
eross-vein and those towards the base clouded with black ; prebrachial vein 
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