DIPTERA. 289 
black; first and second joints red; third slender, linear, rounded at the 
tip, less than thrice the length of the second ; sixth very much longer than 
the third, stout towards the base: chest and breast with a gray covering ; 
scutcheon ferruginous ; abdomen obconical, with gray reflections, a little 
broader but not longer than the chest, ferruginous beneath towards the base : 
legs ferruginous ; feet black : wings pale gray, veins black, tawny towards 
the base; prebrachial vein forming a hardly obtuse angle, beyond which it 
is very slightly bent inward at its flexure; lower cross-vein slightly bent 
inward at one-third of its length from the base: alule white: halteres 
tawny. Length of the body 4} lines; of the wings 9 lines. 
New South Wales. 
4 a 
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TACHINA HEBES, 
Nigra; caput albidum, antice ferrugineum ; thorax canus, nigro quadri- 
vitlatus ; scutellum ferrugineum ; abdomen albo tessellatum ; antenne 
basi ferruginee ; tibia ferruginee ; ale subcineree, basi fulve. 
Fam. Faunide ; Gen. Phryno. Fem. Black: head with a whitish 
covering, clothed behind and beneath with whitish hairs, ferruginous in 
front ; frontalia pitchy, slightly widening towards the feelers ; facialia and 
epistoma tawny, the latter slightly prominent; facialia of the face beset 
with bristles along one-fourth of the length from the base: eyes hairy: 
mouth pitchy ; palpi tawny: feelers black; first and second joints ferrugi- 
nous ; third linear, almost truncated at the tip, reaching the epistoma, near 
thrice the length of the second: chest with a hoary covering which is inter- 
rupted by four black stripes ; scutcheon ferruginous : abdomen tessellated 
with white : legs black; shanks ferruginous : wings very slightly gray, with 
a tawny tinge at the base ; veins black, tawny towards the base; prebra- 
chial vein forming a hardly obtuse angle at its flexure, beyond which it is 
very slightly curved inward; lower cross-vein much curved inward: alule 
white: halteres tawny. Length of the body 4} lines; of the wings 8} 
lines. 
Tasmania. 
