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palpi taiany ivith black tips : feelers black ; first and second joints ferrugi- 

 nous ; third with a gray covering : chest with a hoary covering ivhich is 

 interrupted by five black stripes, the three inner stripes very slender : abdomen 

 black and hoary, tessellated ; tip tawny : legs taivny ; feet black ; fore- 

 shanks ferruginous : wings very pale gray ; veins black ; praebracbial vein 

 forming a right angle at its flexure, curved inward near this, almost 

 straight from thence to the tip ; lower cross-vein with two very slight 

 curves, the lower inward, longer than the upper which is outward ; alula,' 

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



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Sahcophaga pallipes. 



Cana; palpi fulvi; antennce articulis \o et 2o apice ferrugineis ; thorax 

 nigro-aneo quinquevittatus ; abdomen e maculi^ nigris quadrivittatum, 

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



Hoary : head clothed behind and beneath with while hairs ; frontalia 

 bronze-black, linear ; mouth pitchy ; palpi taivny : feelers black ; first and 

 second joints with ferruginous tips : chest with five bronze-black stripes ; ab- 

 domen tessellated with four rows of black spots ; tip deep red : legs tawny ; 

 shanks darker than the thighs ; feet black : wings slightly gray ; veins 

 black ; pra^brachial vein much bent inward and almost angular near its 

 flexure, straight from thence to the tip ; lower cross-vein with two curves, 

 the lower inward, the upper outward : alulae white : halteres tawny. 

 Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings Q>\ lines. 



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Sarcophaga chbysotelos. 



Nigra ; caput Icete auratum, facie alba ; thorax cano quinquevittatus : 

 abdomen cincreum, nigro tessellatum, apice pallide aurato ; alis suh- 

 limpidis, venis fusco marginatis. 



Black : head bright gold-colo2ir, clothed behind and beneath with 

 white hairs ; fronlalia deep black, broader towards the feelers; face white ; 

 mouth tawny towards the tip, clothed wilh tawny hairs ; palpi and feelers 

 black ; third joint of the feelers reaching the epistouia : chest with five 



