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third joint linear, slightly truncated at the tip, about four times the length 

 of the second : chest with short white stripes in front : abdomen bhiish- 

 green towards the tip : thighs and shanks thickly clothed with black hairs; 

 shanks and feet black ; onychia pale yellow : wings gray ; veins black; prae- 

 brachial vein curved inward beyond the flexure, straight from thence to the 

 tip ; lower cross-vein with two rather deep curves, the upper outward, the 

 lower inward : alulce dark gray. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 

 13 lines. 



Sarcophaga hirtipes. 



Nigra; caput el pectus aurata ; palpi fulvi; antenna articulo 3o ferru- 

 gineo; thorax vittis quatunr auratis ; ahdomeyi canum, nigro tessel- 

 latitm, apice rufum ; pedes eiliati ; ahe cinerea, basi siibfuscce. 



Black : head pale gold-colour, clothed behind and beneath with yellow 

 hairs ; frontalia black, widening from the eyelets to the feelers ; epistoma 

 prominent, tawny : mouth pitchy, clothed with tawny hairs ; palpi taumy, 

 black toivards the base : feelers black ; third joint ferruginous, rather long : 

 chest with four very slightly gilded stripes, each inner one inclosing a black 

 streak : breast gilded : abdomen hoary, tessellated ivith black ; tip red : 

 thighs and shanks clothed with long black hairs ; fore-thighs cinereous 

 beneath ; wings gray, brownish at the base : alulae dingy white : halteres 

 tawny. Length of the body 8^ lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



Columbia. 



Saboophaga parva. 



Nigra, cano-tomentosa ; caput album, ; thorax f usee trivitlatus ; abdomen 

 subtessellatum ; alee subhyalinee. 



Black, with a hoary covering : head white ; frontalia deep black, linear : 

 feelers black : chest with three brown stripes : abdomen slightly tessellated : 

 wings almost colourless : praebrachial vuiu forming a veiy obtuse angle at 

 its flexure, near which it is slightly bent inward ; lower cross-vein almost 

 straight: alulae while. Length of the body Ij line ; of the wing 2 lines. 



Para. 



