DIPTERAL 323 



Sarcopiiaga decisa. 



Cinerea ; caput albidum ; jmlpi fcrruijinei ; thorax nigro quinqucxnltalus ; 

 abdomen tessellation, vitta dorsali nigra, apice rufo; pedes picei ; alte 

 subcinerecB. 



Cinereous : head shining, almost white in front, clothed behind and 

 beneath with white hairs; frontalia grayish black, slightly widening from 

 the eyelets to the feelers, minutely striated ; epistoina prominent: mouth 

 pitchy ; palpi dark ferruginous : chest ivith Jive black stripes, the outer 

 pair short, ttvo gray streaks on the cinereous part uithin the inner pair : 

 abdomen tessellated, icith a black dorsal stripe ; tip red : legs pitchy ; hips 

 ferruginous; thighs with a cinereous covering: ivings pale gray : alula; 

 whitish : poisers tawny. Lengtli of the body 4^ lines ; of the wings 

 9 lines. 



Senegal ? 



Sarcophaga comes, Mas. 



Cana ; caput argentcum ; antenna picece ; thorax nigro quinqucvittatus ; 

 abdomen nigrum, cinereo varium, apice rufo ; alec subcinerea. 



Hoary : head silvery tohite, clothed beneath and behind with whitish 

 hairs; frontalia deep black, widening from the eyelets to the feelers; a 

 slender black clavate stripe on each side of the face : mouth black with a 

 pitchy tip ; palpi black: feelers pitchy, with a hoary covering; tip of the 

 second joint ferruginous: chest tiith five black stripes : abdomen black, with 

 cinereous reflections ; tip red: legs black: unngs pale gray ; veins black, 

 pitchy at the base ; praebrachial vein forming an almost right angle at its 

 flexure, curved inward near this, hardly inclined outward from thence to 

 the tip ; lower cross-vein with the two usual curves which are very slight : 

 alula; white : halteres tawny. Length of the body 3^—4 lines ; of the 

 wings 28 lines. 



United States. 



