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on each side in front ; frontalia tawny, widened in front and be- 

 hind, where they include a lanceolate triangle ; epistoma pro- 

 minent, with a black streak on each side ; proboscis black ; 

 antennae piceous ; abdomen testaceous, with a black stripe and 

 with black bands ; first, second and third bands widely inter- 

 rnpted, fifth occupying almost the whole segment ; legs tawny ; 

 wings grey ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; prsebrachial 

 vein forming a very oblique and somewhat rounded vein at its 

 flexure, nearly straight from thence to its tip; discal transverse 

 vein much curved inward near its base, hardly curved outwards 

 towards its tip, parted by rather more than half its length from 

 the border and from the flexure of the praebrachial ; alulae 

 slightly testaceous. 



Length of the body 3| lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



Cape. 



Genus Lucilia, Desv. 



Lucilia pinguis. 



Fcem. — Purpurea, capite nigro antice rufescente, antennis rufe- 

 scentibus, thorace ex parte cyaneo, pedibus nigris, tibiis ferru- 

 gineis, alis subcinereis, venis nigris, alulis cinereis. 



Female. — Purple ; head black, reddish in front ; antennae red- 

 dish ; arista black ; thorax partly blue ; legs black ; tibiae ferru- 

 ginous ; wings greyish ; veins black ; praebrachial vein forming a 

 right slightly rounded angle at its flexure, slightly curved inward 

 from thence to its tip ; discal transverse vein very slightly undu- 

 lating, parted by nearly half its length from the border, and by full 

 half its length from the flexure of the praebrachial ; alulae cinereous. 



Length of the body 3g lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



Hindostan. 



Lucilia hasifera. 



Mas. — Viridis, capite nigro, thorace vittis duabus latis nigris, 



lateribus cyaneis, scutello abdomineque purpureis, hujus 



dimidio apicali viridi, illius margine cyaneo, pedibus nigris, 



alis subcinereis basi nigricantibus. 



Male. — Green ; head black ; thorax with two broad black 



stripes, blue on each side ; scutellum purple, with a blue border ; 



abdomen purple ; apical half green, with hoary hairs ; hind border 



of the third segment purple ; legs black ; wing greyish, blackish 



