DIPTERA. 297 
Tacuina svBriora, Mas. 
Nigra, canescens; caput album; thorax nigro quadriviliatus, scutello 
? ” , 
preeo; abdomen piceum, albo-micans, subtus subferrugineum; ale 
cinerea. 
Fam. Faunide; Gen, Phryno? Black: head with a white co- 
vering, clothed beneath and behind with whitish hairs; frontalia deep 
black, broad, almost linear; facialia without bristles except at the base ; 
epistoma hardly prominent: eyes bare: palpz tawny: feelers black; second 
joint ferruginous ; third ferruginous beneath at the base, almost linear, 
slightly truncated at the tip, a little deeper than the second, and about four 
times its length ; sixth very much longer than the third: chest and breast 
with a hoary covering : chest with four black stripes ; scutcheon pitchy : ab. 
domen obconical, pitchy, not longer than the chest, slightly ferruginous 
beneath ; sides with white reflections towards the base of each segment : 
wings gray ; veins black, tawny towards the base: prebrachial vein form- 
ing an obtuse angle, near which it is indistinctly inclined inward, straight 
from thence to the tip ; lower cross-vein with the two curves which are ex- 
tremely slight: alule dingy white with pale yellow borders. Length of 
the body 53 lines; of the wings 11 lines. 
Brazil. 
TacHINA sorpipa, Fem. 
Nigra, aurata ; thorax nigro quadrivittatus ; abdomen albidum, nigro 
subtessellatum, subtus cinereum ; antenne nigra, basi et subtus rufe ; 
ale subcineree, basi et apud venas subfusce. 
- Fam. Faunide. Black, with a pale gold covering, which is brighter 
on the head than on the chest; frontalia deep black; widening from 
the eyelets to the feelers; facialia bristly only at the base: eyes bare: 
epistoma not prominent: mouth and palpi black: feelers red; third 
joint black, red at the base, about twice the length of the second, not 
near reaching the epistoma ; fifth not longer than the fourth; sixth black : 
chest with four black stripes, the inner pair more slender than the outer 
pair: abdomen whitish, slightly tessellated with black ; under side gray, with 
a white band on the hind border of each segment: legs black ; thighs with 
a gray covering: wings grayish, pale brown at the base and along the bor- 
