284 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
'TACHINA LATIFRONS. 
Cinerea ; thorax nigro quinquevittatus ; abdomen atrum ; antenna et pedes 
nigra, maris tibie postice ciliate ; ale cineree, basi nigro-fusce. 
Fam. Faunide; Gen. Blepharipeza. Gray; head above beset with 
black bristles, having a black stripe which is bordered with white ; fore part 
and under side white ; facialia of the face with four bristles towards the 
epistoma; mouth brown; palpitawny: feelers black; third joint more than 
twice the length of the second: chest with five indistinct black stripes : 
abdomen deep black, thickly beset with black spines: legs black; hind- 
shanks of the male fringed with black hairs: wings gray, blackish brown 
at the base ; prebrachial vein forming an almost right angle at its flexure : 
alule dark gray. Length of the body 5} lines; of the wings 13 lines. 
South America. 
Nearly allied to Hystricia. 
TACHINA NIGRORUFA. 
Nigro-cinerea ; caputantice et subtus albidum ; scutellum et abdomen fer- 
ruginea ; ale cinerea, basi fusce. 
Grayish black : head whitish in front and beneath ; frontalia pitehy ; 
facialia of the face beset with bristles along nearly half the length from 
the base: mouth towards the tip and palpi ferruginous: scutellum and ab- 
domen dark ferruginous, the latter beset with spines: hind shanks of the 
male fringed: wings gray, dark brown at the base: alule dark gray. 
Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 15 lines. 
Columbia. 
TACHINA ATRATA, 
Nigra ; caput antice auratum ; thorax cinereus, nigro quadrivittatus, lateri- 
bus et scutello ferrugineis ; abdomen atrum, apice cinereum ; antenne 
ferrugince ; ale fusca, basi ferruginee. 
Fam. Faunide ; Gen. Belvosia. Black : frontal region ferruginous : 
face gilded ; facialia beset with bristles along the whole length: palpi tawny: 
