Head large and black. Eyes brown (antennæ broken off). Thorax black, with two yellow spots next the head, and one on each side, at the base of the wings, with a yellow line crossing it next the abdomen. Scutellum chesnut-coloured. Abdomen chesnut-coloured at the base, with a yellow ring crossing the middle; at the extremity golden green. Legs and breast black. Wings transparent.
ECHINOMYIA PILOSA.
Plate [XLV]. fig. 7.
Order: Diptera. Section: Athericera. Family: Muscidæ.
Genus. Echinomyia, Dumeril. Tachina, Fabr. Musca, Drury.
Echinomyia Pilosa. Atra; setis rigidis numerosissimis obsita, alis opacis fuscis, capite brunneo. (Echin. hirtâ paullo minor.)
Syn. Musca pilosa, Drury, App. vol. 2.
Tachina hystrix, Fabr. Syst. Antl. 310. 8. Weidemann Auss. Zw. Ins. 2. 284.
Habitat: Jamaica.
Head red brown. Antennæ short and thick, without hairs. Thorax and abdomen entirely covered with thick black hairs, or rather bristles, when compared with the size of the insect. Wings opake and brown, not transparent. Breast black, covered with black bristles. Legs black, spinose.