DIPTERA. 291 
wings almost colourless, gray at the base; veins black; prebrachial vein 
forming a slightly obtuse angle at its flexure, near which it is a little 
curved inward, almost straight from thence to the tip; lower cross-vein 
with two very slight curves, the lower inward, somewhat deeper than the 
other which is very indistinct: alule gray with lurid borders: halteres 
ferruginous. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 11 lines. 
Madras or Bombay. 
TacHINA UMBROSA. 
Cinerea ; thorax nigro quadrivittatus; scutellum fulvum ; abdomen cano- 
piceum ; antenne nigra, basi ferruginee ; tibia tarsique nigra; ale 
cinerea, basi subfusce. 
Fam. Faunide; Gen. Eurigaster. Allied to T. nigricornis, Wied. 
Gray: head clothed behind and beneath with whitish hairs: frontal 
region with a tawny covering, and with a few black bristles on each side ; 
frontalia pitchy; face gilded ; foyer white; facialia without bristles ; 
mediana ferruginous ; lateralia gray, with black hairs: proboscis and 
palpi pitchy: feelers black; first and second joints ferruginous; third 
linear, almost truncated at the tip, as deep as the second and near thrice 
its length: chest with four indistinct slender black stripes; scutcheon 
tawny : abdomen beneath and thighs somewhut pitchy and with a hoary 
tinge; shanks and feet black: wings gray, brownish at the base ; prebra- 
chial vein forming a slightly obtuse angle at its flexure, beyond which it 
is slightly curved; lower cross-vein very slightly undulating. Length of 
the body 7 lines; of the wings 14 lines. 
East Indies. 
Tacuina puBIA, Fem. 
Nigra ; caput argenteum ; thorax cinereus, utrinque fulvus, nigro quadri- 
viltatus ; scutellum fulvum ; abdomen fulvum; albo-micans, nigro vit- 
tatum ; pedes fulvi, tarsis nigris ; ale subcineree, ad venas fusce. 
Fam. Faunide ; Gen. Phryno? Black: head tawny, with a silvery 
white covering, clothed behind and beneath with pale yellow hairs; crown 
black with a pale gilded covering; frontalia reddish-pitchy, widening 
towards the feelers ; frontalia without bristles: epistoma slightly promi- 
