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The discovery of this fine Muscid in England was made by Mr. 

 Coryndon Matthews, of Erme Wood, Ivybridge, S. Devon, who cap- 

 tured a single female in that locality in the summer of 1887, which 

 he kindly sent to me. The species seems to be rare throughout 

 Europe. 



Genus SABCOPHAGA. 



« S. FULYICATJDA, Sp. n. 



(J , whitish-grey, striped and tessellated as in S. carnaria ; frontal space narrow ; 



thorax with three dorso-central bristles behind the transverse suture ; abdomen 



without central spines upon the edge of second segment ; first anal segment shining 



black, second blaok upon the outer surface, but brownish-yellow beneath ; hind 



femora villose, but not spinose, beneath ; hind tibiae with long beards on their inner 



surfaces ; middle tibite also bearded ; wings without spines on the auxiliary veins.* 



Long., 6 — 7 mm. 



Head — face prominent ; frontal space about one-sixth of the width of the head ; 

 frontal stripe brownish-black, occupying nearly the whole of the space at its upper 

 part j face silvery-white, with dark reflections ; genal bristles small. 



Thorax, witb scutellum, cinereous ; the former marked with three longitudinal 

 black stripes on the dorsum, and with a short uneven one on the side in front of the 

 base of each wing ; scutellum with a slight black central streak. 



Abdomen narrow, marked in the usual way ; anal segments small, but projecting ; 

 the first shining black, the second with outer surface also black, but with the colour 

 gradually changing until it becomes of a clear brownish-yellow on the under-surface, 

 where it is prolonged in the shape of a cylindrical cone beneath the abdomen. 



Wings with brownish-yellow tinge ; costal spine large ; external transverse 

 vein nearly straight, and rather shorter than the distance from its point of junction 

 with the fifth longitudinal vein, from the margin of the wing. 



Legs with the hind femora furnished beneath with soft hairs, but few spines ; 

 hind tibiae armed with strong bi'istles on their outer sides and ends, and having a 

 long loose beard on their inner and anterior surfaces ; middle tibiae also bearded 

 along the whole length of their under-sides with soft hairs, about half as long as 

 those upon the hind tibiae. 



I have only seen two males of this well marked species, which I 

 found some years ago near Bicester, in Oxfordshire. I do not know the 

 females ; it may possibly be the same as Meigen's L. vagans, the 

 female of which is said to have the apex of the abdomen red ; I hardly 

 think, however, that he could have overlooked the fulvous, infra-jcaudal 

 segment of the male. This species seems to occupy a position inter- 

 mediate between the two divisions of the genus, viz., those with black, 

 and those with red terminal abdominal segments. 

 Bradford : May 25th, 1888. 



* In my Monograph upon the British Sarcophagi, I named this vein the second longitudinal, 

 after Zottorstcdt ; but properly it is part of the first longitudinal. 



