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442. Chrvsops SEPULCHRALis Fabr . — Length of body 6 lines. 

 Taken with the preceding. 



[315.] Body black, slightly downy. Head hoary from pubescence ; 

 proboscis with a black sheath and testaceous haustellum ; feelers black ; 

 antennae red at the base ; below the antennoe is an obtriangular levigated, 

 and naked space, with rounded angles, and somewhat elevated ; behind 

 the antenna; in the frontal space, between the eyes, the ordinary levigated 

 and naked areas, which in Tabanus are longitudinal, in Chrysops are 

 transverse ; sides of the trunk hairy with black erect hairs, it is also 

 marked above with four longitudinal hoary stripes formed by invisible 

 pubescence ; underneath the trunk is govered with down of the same 

 description and color, and se^ with tufts of longer hairs ; wings white, 

 with the costal margin and a middle abbreviated band, and nervures 

 brown ; legs and abdomen black, and extremity whitish from down. 



[An European species.] 



FAMILY SVRPHID/E. 



443. Scj1<:va ribesii Fabr. — Length of body 4 lines. Taken with 

 the preceding. 



Head concavo-convex ; underneath black, with the edge fringed with 

 whitish hairs ; vertex black ; face below the antennae yellowish ; hoary 

 from decumbent hairs next the eyes ; antennge yellowish with a darker 

 cloud ; trunk bronzed with a greenish tint, downy especially on the sides, 

 down whitish ; wings hyaline, longer than the body, with black nervures, 

 but those of the costal area are ferruginous ; scutellum large, yellow ; 

 legs luteous, coxae and trochanters dark-brown, posterior tarsi black, first 

 joint below with a brush of golden colored bristles ; abdomen depressed, 

 above black with five yellow bands, viz., one consisting of two crescents, 

 forming an interrupted band, [3 1 6] traversing the middle of the first seg- 

 ment ; then a broadish subinterrupted one traversing the base of the 

 second and third ; and lastly the margin of the two last segments is also 

 yellow, as is the under side of the abdomen. 



[An European species ; taken also in Nova Scotia.] 



FAMILY MUSCID^. 



444. Muse A CADAVERUM Kirby. — Length of body 4^ lines. A 

 single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 



