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foveae whitish : mouth, palpi and leelers black ; third joint of the t'celcrs 

 pitch)- : chest with six white stripes, the outermost pair irregular, connected 

 in front with the next pair: abdomen tessellated with ichite and black ; tip 

 deep red : legs black ; thighs with a white covering beneath : wiiujs pale 

 gray, darker at the base; veins black: alulee whitish: halteres tawny. 

 Length of the body 4^ lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



Jamaica. 



SaHCOPHAGA AURrilNIS. 



Nigra ; caput liBte auratum, facie alba ; thorax cano quadrivittattis, 

 lateribiis albo vittatis ; abdomen c maculis albis quadrivittatum, apice 

 rufo-aurato ; tibia picea: ; alte subcinerece. 



Black: head bright gold-colour, clothed with black hairs; fronlalia 

 dull black, hardly widening towards the feelers ; face white : month, palpi, 

 and feelers black : mouth clothed with short yellow hairs : chest with four 

 hoary dorsal stripes and with a short white stripe on each side : breast 

 hoary : abdomen tessellated ivith four rows of ivhite spots ; tip red with 

 a bright gold-colour covering : thighs with a hoary tinge ; shanks pitchy : 

 wings slightly gray ; veins black : alulae white : halteres tawny, with pale 

 yellow knobs. Length of the body 3^ — 4^ lines ; of the wings 7 — 9 lines. 



Brazil. 



Sarcophaga cognata. 



Nigro-cenea; caput late auratum, facie alba; thorax vittis sex auratis ; 

 abdomen cyaneo-nigrum, e maculis albis quadrivittatum, apice rufo ; 

 tibice picea ; alee subcinerca. 



Bronze-black : head with a bright gold covering, clothed with black 

 hairs ; frontalia black, very slightly decreasing in breadth from the eyelets 

 to the feelers ; disk of the face white : moulh pitchy ; palpi and feelers 

 black : chest with six pale gold stripes, outermost pair short : breast 

 hoary : abdomen bluish-black, tessellated with four rows of white spots ; 

 tip red: legs black; shanks pitchy: wings slightly gray; veins black: 

 alulae whitish : halteres tawny. Length of the body 3.^^ — 4i lines ; of the 

 wings 7 — 9^ lines. 



South America. 



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