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_.