67. Tachina Ophirica, n. fœm. Cinerea, latiuscula, capite argenteo, frontalibus atris, thoracis vittis quatuor interruptis nigris, scutelli margine abdominisque fasciis canis, alis subcinereis.
Female. Cinereous, rather short and broad. Head hoary, silvery-white above and in front; frontalia deep black, slightly widening from the vertex to the antennæ; facialia without bristles; epistoma hardly prominent. Antennæ extending to about three-quarters of the length of the face; 3rd joint linear, slender, rounded at the tip, about twice the length of the 2nd; arista stout for about half its length, very much longer than the 3rd joint. Thorax with four slender interrupted black stripes; scutellum with a hoary border. Abdomen black, obconical, hardly longer than the thorax; a broad hoary band on the fore border of each segment. Wings slightly greyish; veins black; præbrachial vein forming an almost right and rather well-defined angle from whence it is slightly curved inward to its tip; discal transverse vein hardly curved inward, parted by rather less than its length from the border and from the flexure of the præbrachial. Alulæ white. Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 8 lines.
Mount Ophir, at the height of 4000 feet.
Gen. Masicera, Macquart.
68. Masicera tomentosa, Macq. Dipt. Exot. Suppl. 2.
Mount Ophir, at the height of 4000 feet.
69. Masicera vicaria, n. s., fœm. Nigra, longiuscula, capite albo, frontalibus atris, thoracis vittis quatuor, lateribus scutello abdominisque fasciis duabus latis interruptis canis, alis cinereis.
Female. Black, rather long. Head white, with short white hairs beneath and behind; frontalia linear, deep black; facialia without bristles; epistoma not prominent. Eyes pubescent. Antennæ extending nearly to the epistoma; 3rd joint linear, slender, slightly rounded at the tip, about four times the length of the 2nd; arista rather stout for full one-third of the length from the base, very much longer than the 3rd joint. Thorax with four hoary stripes; sides and scutellum hoary. Abdomen elongate-obconical, much longer than the thorax, with two broad interrupted hoary bands. Legs stout. Wings grey; veins black; præbrachial vein forming a rather obtuse angle at its flexure, from whence it is slightly curved inward to its tip; discal transverse vein undulating, parted by very little less than its length from the border and from the flexure of the præbrachial. Alulæ whitish. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 9 lines.
Singapore.