450 On new Species of Diiiter a etc. from Rodriguez. 



Sarcophaga mtctata^ 



Female. Length 5 lines. Black, thinly clothed with black 

 hairs and bristles ; the face and cheeks with a covering of 

 bright silvery pile ; the margins of the facial groove fringed 

 anteriorly with short black bristles ; eyes dark reddish brown ; 

 the base of the antennje black, the third joint tawny and with 

 a long plumose black bristle at the base ; frons with a broad 

 black stripe nmning from the antennge to the vertex. Thorax 

 tawny above and with three black longitudinal stripes ; the 

 lateral margins set with black curved bristles ; legs black 

 and with a number of black bristles ; wings subhyaline, the 

 veins black ; the transverse vein at the end of the wing straight 

 above, oblique and curved below ; the lower transverse vein 

 evenly waved ; the alul^ white. Abdomen tessellated with 

 black and silvery pile, covered with short black hairs, and 

 having a few long black bristles at the apex ; there are also 

 four long curved black bristles on the hinder margin of the 

 scutellum. 



(Coll. by Gulliver.) 



Sapromyza squalida. 



Male. Length 2 lines. Pale brown ; frons yellow, with 

 a dark brown central line ; two long bristles at the hind corner 

 of the eye, and two between them and the antenna j face pale 

 yellow ; peristoma with a row of small bristles. Antennge 

 yellowish, brown above, the second joint with long black 

 bristles beneath, at the end ; arista black, yellow at the base 

 and plumose ; the palpi yellow. Thorax with obscure pale 

 (almost white) longitudinal stripes ; the scutellum pale brown, 

 its outer margin and a central longitudinal line pale yellow. 

 Legs yellow ; the tibiae have all a preapical bristle ; the ante- 

 rior femora with scattered bristles, the intermediate pair with 

 a row of bristles in front near the tip. Wings faintly yel- 

 lowish, middle transverse veinlets darkened, and yellowish 

 spots at the tip of the lower transverse veinlet and at the tips 

 of the second and third veins, and also on those veins some 

 distance from the tips, and on the second vein opposite where 

 the first vein ends in the costa. Abdomen brownish yellow 

 and thinly sprinkled with short black hairs. 



(Coll. by Gulliver.) 



Forficulidae. 



Forficula {Bracliylahis) varicornis. 



Length 4^ lines ; forceps 1 line. Nigro-piceous, shining ; 

 the palpi, mouth, and legs pale testaceous, the prothorax rufo- 



