322 INSECTA SAUNDEHSIANA. 



Sarcophaga derelicta, Mas et Fein. 



Nigra, cano-tomentosa ; caput album ; thorax fusco trivittatus, scutelli 

 disco fusco ; ahdomen cinereum, cano varium, apice rufo ; alls sub- 

 cinereis. 



Black, with a hoary covering: head with a white covering ; frontalia 

 dull black, slightly widening from the eyelets to the feelers : palpi and 

 feelers black: chest ivith three broivn stripes ; disk of the scutcheon brown : 

 abdomen gray^ with hoary reflections ; tip red : legs black : wings slightly 

 gray ; veins black ; prtebrachial vein forming a hardly obtuse angle at its 

 flexure, much bent inward near this, straight from thence to the tip which 

 joins the tip of the cubital vein ; lower cross-vein slightly bent inward near 

 the base : alula white. Length of the body 2j lines ; of the wings 4^ 

 lines. 



Var. /3. PrfEbrachial vein not joining the cubital. 



Var. y. Prsebrachial vein forming a very obtuse angle at its flexure. 



United States. 



Note. These three vars. may perhaps be three distinct species. 



Sarcophaga maculosa. 



Nigra ; caput argenteum ; thorax cano quadrivittatus ; abdomen e maculis 

 argenteis quadrivittatum, apice rufo ; alis subcinereis. 



S. argyrostoma, Desv., difi"ers from this species by its large size, and by 

 the yellowish red tip of its abdomen. 



Black: head silvery ivhite ; frontalia deep black, broad, widening from 

 the eyelets to the feelers ; facialia deep black in the middle part, pale fawn- 

 colour towards the epistoma : feelers black : chest tvith four hoary stripes : 

 abdomen with four rows of silvery spots ; tip rather dark red : ivings very 

 slightly gray : alulae whitish with pale yellow borders : halteres tawny 

 Length of the body 41 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



Cape. 



