22 MB. walker's catalogue oe dipterous insects 



gusta, capite albo, frontalibus atris, proboscide palpis antennisque testaceis, 

 arista plumosa, tborace nigro-quadrivittato, abdomine testaceo semihyalino, 

 vitta fasciisque nigris, pedibus longis testaceis, tarsis nigris, alis subcinereis. 



Male. Body hoary, long, narrow, with long black bristles. Head white ; 

 frontalia deep black, widening from the vertex to the antenna? ; facialia 

 without bristles ; epistoma not prominent. Eyes bare. Proboscis and palpi 

 testaceous. Antennae testaceous, not nearly extending to the epistoma; 

 3rd joint slender ; arista black, plumose. Thorax with four black stripes, 

 of which the outer pair are broader than the inner pair. Abdomen testa- 

 ceous, semihyaline, with a black dorsal stripe, and with a black band on 

 the hind border of each segment. Legs long, testaceous ; tarsi black. Wings 

 greyish ; veins black ; prsebrachial vein forming a hardly obtuse angle at 

 its flexure, from whence it is indistinctly undulating to its tip which joins 

 the costal at a little in front of the tip of the wing ; discal transverse vein 

 slightly curved inward near its hind end, parted by hardly more than half 

 its length from the border, and by hardly less than its length from the 

 flexure of the prsebrachial. Alula? whitish. Length of the body 6 lines ; 

 of the wings 11 lines. 



Mount Ophir. 



Subfam. Sarcophagides. 

 G-en. Saecophaga, Meigen. 



73. Sarcophaga ruficornis, Fair. Syst. Antl. 287. 12. (Musca.) 

 Malacca. Inhabits also Hindostan. 



74. Sarcophaga eecipeoca, n. s., fcem. Cana, capite albo, frontalibus palpis 

 antennis thoracis vittis pedibusque nigris, abdomine subtessellato, alis sub- 

 cinereis. 



Female. Hoary. Head white ; frontalia black, linear. Proboscis, palpi and 

 antennae black. Thorax with three black stripes, and with black lines 

 intersecting the two intermediate hoary stripes. Abdomen slightly tessel- 

 lated. Legs black. Wings greyish ; veins black ; prsebrachial forming a 

 right angle at its flexure, near which it is much curved inward, and is thence 

 straight to its tip ; discal transverse vein slightly undulating, parted by 

 less than its length from the border, and by little more than half its length 

 from the flexure of the prsebrachial. Alulse white. Length of the body 

 6 lines ; of the wings 11 lines. 



Singapore. A smaller specimen from Malacca apparently belongs to this 

 species. 



75. Sarcophaga aliena, n. s., foem. Cana, capite albo, frontalibus palpis 

 antennis thoracis vittis pedibusque nigris, abdomine tessellato, alis sub- 

 cinereis. 



Female. Hoary. Head white ; frontalia black, slightly widening in front. 

 Proboscis, palpi and antennae black. Thorax with three black stripes, and 

 with black lines intersecting the two intermediate hoary stripes. Abdomen 

 tessellated. Legs black. Wings slightly greyish ; veins black ; prsebrachial 

 forming a very slightly acute angle at it3 flexure, near which it is much 

 curved inward, and is thence straight to its tip ; discal transverse vein 



