328 INSECTA SAUNDERStANA. 



Sarcophaga assidua, Mas et Fem. 



Nigra, cano-tomentosa ,• caput alho-tomentosum ; thorax fusco quinque- 

 vittatus ; abdomen cinereum ; pedes fulvi, tarsis nigris ; alee suh- 

 cinerecB. 



Black, with a hoary covering : head ivith a while covering ; frontaliii 

 deep black: palpi and feelers black : chest with five broivn stripes, the inner 

 pair very slender, indistinct: abdomen cinereous, with reflections: legs 

 taivny ; feet black: wings very slightly gray; veins black, tawny at the 

 base ; praebrachial vein forming a hardly obtuse angle at its flexure, bent 

 inward near this, straight from thence to the tip ; lower cross-vein very 

 slightly bent inward near the base, straight from thence to the tip : alulae 

 white. Length of the body 2j lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



Var. |8. Second joint of the feelers red ; third red at the base. 



United States. 



Sarcophaga fulvipes. 



Cana ; antennce basi ferruginece ; thorax nigra trivit talus ; abdomen, nigra 

 tessellatum, apice rufo ; pedes fulvi, tarsis nigris ; alee subcinerea. 



Hoary : head clothed with black hairs ; frontalia broad, linear, deep 

 black ; facialia and foveae white : mouth pitchy, ferruginous towards the 

 base ; palpi black : feelers black ; first and second joints ferruginous : chest 

 with three bronze-black stripes : abdomen tessellated with black ; tip pale 

 red: legs tawny ; feet black : wings very slightly gray ; veins black ; prae- 

 brachial vein slightly bent inward and almost angular near its flexure, 

 nearly straight from thence to the tip : alulae white : halteres tawny. 

 Length of the body 2f lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



United States. 



Sarcophaga basalts. 



Nigra ; caput argenteum ; palpi fulvi, apice nigri ; antenneB basi ferrii- 

 ginc(e ; thorax canus, vittis quinque nigris ; abdomen nigra canoque 

 tessellatum, apice fulvum ; pedes fulvi, tarsis nigris ; alee sub- 

 cinereee. 



Black : head silvery white, clothed behind and beneath with white 

 hairs; frontalia reddish brown, linear ; lateralia partly red: mouth pitchy; 



