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280 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
forming a hardly acute angle at its flexure, near which it is much bent 
inward, almost straight from thence to the tip; lower cross-vein with the 
two usual curves which are slight: alule yellow, large. Length of the 
body 5 lines ; of the wings 11 lines. 
Columbia. 
TACHINA CONCISA. 
Atra; caput album ; thorax albido quadrivittatus ; scutellum apice albi- 
dum ; abdomen albido micans, lateribus et apice luteum ; ale sub- 
cineree. 
Fem. Deep black: head with a white covering, clothed beneath and 
behind with white hairs; a broad, black band on the crown, and a black 
spot on each side of the face ; frontalia broad, linear, pitchy, ferruginous 
towards the feelers; facialia without bristles: palpi and feelers black : 
shield with a hoary dish, and with four short whitish stripes m front, each 
pair connected behind by a band : seutcheon whitish towards the tip : abdo- 
men with whitish reflections, luteous on each side and at the tip : thighs 
tinged with white: wings slightly gray; veins black, tawny towards the 
base ; prebrachial vein forming a right angle at its flexure, curved inward 
near the flexure, straight from thence to the tip; lower eross-vein with 
the two usual curves, the upper one more distinct than the lower: alule 
large, yellow, with white disks. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 
7 lines. 
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Cape. 
TAcHINA BEMOTA. 
Nigra; caput albidum ; thorax cinereus, nigro quinqueviltatus ; scutellum 
ferrugineum ; abdomen lateribus bast rufum; antenne basi et subtus 
ferruginee ; ale subcineree. 
Fam, Faunide; Gen. Phryno? Black: head with a white covering, 
clothed beneath and behind with white hairs; crown gray; frontalia dark 
ferrnginous, almost linear; facialia of the face ferruginous, beset with 
bristles along half the length from the base ; epistoma pale yellow, very 
slightly prominent: eyes hairy: palpi tawny: feelers black; first and 
second joints ferruginous; third ferruginous beneath at the base, almost 
linear, truncated at the tip, a little deeper than the second and much more 
