DIPTERA. 293 
cross-vein with the two usual curves, the inward one distinct, the outward 
one scarcely perceptible: alule yellowish, with tawny borders: halteres 
tawny. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 
East Indies. 
TACHINA ALTA. 
Nigra, crassa; caput album; thorax cinereus; scutellum rufum, basi 
nigrum ; abdomen cinereo-micans ; antenne et pedes nigra ; ale sub- 
cinerea. 
Fam. Faunide ; Gen. Pales. Black, rather thick: head with a white 
covering; frontalia ferruginous; facialia without bristles except at the 
base ; epistoma not prominent; lateralia pale tawny: eyes bare: palpi 
tawny : feelers black; third juint linear, rounded at the tip, reaching the 
epistoma, about six times the length of the second; sixth slender, very 
much longer than the third: chest with a cinereous covering ; scutcheon red, 
black at the base: abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest, with 
cinereous reflections: wings slightly gray; veins black, tawny at the base ; 
prebrachial vein forming a slightly obtuse angle at its flexure, beyond 
which it is slightly curved inward ; lower cross-vein with a very slight 
outward curve in the middle: alule whitish. Length of the body 43 lines; 
of the wings 8 lines. ne 
Madras or Caleutta ? 
TacHINnA picEa, Mas, 
Nigra; caput album ; thorax albo vittatus ; scutellum ferrugineum ; ab- 
domen albo-micans, lateribus férrugineum ; antenne nigra, basi 
subtusque ferruginee ; pedes nigri ; ale subcinerea, basi subfusce. 
Fam. Faunide; Gen. Phryno. Black: head adorned with a white 
covering ; frontalia deep brown, linear; interfrontalia dull black; facialia 
beset with bristles at each end: eyes hairy: mouth pitchy ; palpi tawny, 
with a white covering towards their tips: feelers ferruginous ; third joint 
linear, rounded at the tip, black above, not reaching the epistoma, full 
twice the length of the second: chest striped-with white? scutcheon dark 
ferruginous : abdomen ferruginous on each side, with white reflections on the 
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