342 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. . 
contiguous to each eye, and the third between the eye and 
the peristoma ; frontalia linear, with black bristles along each 
side; two black bristles on each side of the facialia near the 
epistoma, which is prominent. Eyes bare. Proboscis black. 
Antenne not reaching the epistoma; third joint darker at the 
tip, a little more than half the length of the second; arista 
slender, except at the base, full twice the length of the third 
joint. Thorax and pectus black. Thorax with bristles on 
each side; a testaceous spot on each shoulder; scutellum 
testaceous, with six long and several shorter black bristles. 
Abdomen with four black dots along each side, with many 
short and slender black bristles, those at the tip longer and 
stouter; third segment with a black longitudinal streak. 
Tarsi piceous towards the tips. Wings cinereous; veins 
testaceous ; prabrachial vein forming a very obtuse angle at 
its flexure, very slightly curved from thence to its tip, which 
joins the cubital vein at some distance from the tip of the 
wing; discal transverse vein slightly undulating, parted by 
less than its length from the border and from the flexure 
of the prebrachial; alule white. Length of the body 3} 
lines. This and the following species differ much from the 
typical form of Gonia. Tajura. 
68. G. insueta. Male. Cinereous, with no_ bristles, 
excepting those along the frontalia. Head silvery white; 
frontalia tawny, linear, with two or three short slender bristles 
on each side. Antenne piceous, not reaching the epistoma; 
third joint linear, about thrice the length of the second; 
arista as long as the third joint, incrassated for more than half 
the length from the base. Thorax with three very indistinct 
paler stripes. Abdomen testaceous. Legs cinereous, short, 
stout; knees tawny. Wings pellucid; veins testaceous; 
prebrachial vein forming an obtuse angle at its flexure, 
slightly curved from thence to its tip, which joins the cubital 
vein at some distance from the tip of the wing; discal trans- 
verse vein nearly straight, parted by less than its length from 
the border and from the flexure of the prebrachial ; alule 
white. Halteres testaceous. Length of the body 2 lines. 
Tajura. 
Fam. SARCOPHAGIDZ.—Gen. SarcopHaGa, Meig. 
69. S. carnaria. Musca carnaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 2, 
