292 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
nent: eyes hairy: mouth pitchy; palpi tawny: feelers black; second 
joint ferruginous ; third linear, rather deep, almost truncated at the tip, 
not reaching the epistoma, near thrice the length of the second; orifice in 
the middle of the length, a little nearer the lower border than the upper: 
chest with a cinereous or slightly gilded covering, tawny on each side, with 
four slender black stripes; scutcheon tawny : abdomen tawny with white 
reflections, darker at the tip, with a black dorsal stripe which is widened at 
the base and on the hind border of each segment ; a black band along the 
hind border of the third segment: legs tawny; feet black; claws fringed, 
tawny towards the base; onychia luteous: wings pale gray, tinged with 
brown along the borders of the veins; veins black, tawny at the base ; pre- 
brachial vein forming a slightly obtuse angle at its flexure, from whence it 
is almost straight with the exception of a very slight inward curve at one- 
third of its length; lower cross-vein with two curves, the lower inward, 
deeper than the other which is outward: alule whitish, with pale yellow 
borders. Length of the body 4} lines; of the wings 10 lines. 
Cape. 
TACHINA ADUSTA. 
Cervina ; caput argenteum ; thorax fusco quinquevittatus ; abdomen ful- 
ovum, maculis trigonis nigris vittatum, flavo fasciatum ; antenna et 
pedes nigra ; ale cinerea, basi fulve, apud venas fusce. 
Fam. Faunide ; Gen. Phryno. Mas. Pale fawn-colour: head with 
a silvery white covering, clothed beneath and behind with pale yellow hairs; 
frontalia pitchy, linear; epistoma hardly prominent; facialia beset with 
bristles along the face and along the peristoma: eyes bare: mouth pitchy ; 
palpi tawny : feelers black ; third joint slender, reaching the epistoma, full 
six times the length of the second ; sixth joint stout, hardly longer than 
the third joint: chest with five interrupted brown stripes ; abdomen ob- 
conical, ‘awny, a little longer than the chest; a triangular black spot on 
the hind border of each segment; third and fourth segments yellow with 
black hind borders: legs black: wings gray, tawny-at the base, brown be- 
neath the fore border and along the borders of the veins ; veins black, tawny 
towards the base; prebrachial vein forming a slightly obtuse angle at its 
flexure, near which it is indistinctly inclined inward, almost straight from 
thence to the tip which is very near the tip of the cubital vein; lower 
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