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. 

 Antenna) 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; praebrachial 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 prsebrachial ; alulae white. Length of the body 3 J 

 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. Antennae 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; 

 praebrachial 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 praebrachial ; alulae 

 white. Halteres testaceous. Length of the body 2 lines. 

 Tajura. 



Fam. Sarcophagid^. — Gen. Sarcophaga, Meig. 



69. S. carnaria. Musca carnaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 2, 



