812 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



wards the tip ; palpi black, beset with black bristles: feelers black, 

 shorter than the face ; third joint pitchy, rather deep, very slightly 

 convex above and beneath, rounded at the tip ; bristle black, more 

 than twice the length of the third joint, having a very short joint at 

 the base, feathered for full half its length : chest adorned with four 

 pale tawny stripes, and on each side with a golden stripe ; breast 

 partly clothed with dull pale tawny bloom ; scutcheon and sides of 

 the chest armed with black bristles ; sides and hind border of the 

 scutcheon pale tawny : abdomen oval, deep black, clothed with short 

 black hairs, armed towards the tip with a lew black spines, rather 

 shorter but not broader than the chest, bright tawny at the tip, and 

 having a hoary stripe along the whole length beneath : legs black, 

 clothed with black hairs and bristles ; foot-cushions dark tawny : 

 wings slightly gray? brown at the base and along nearly half the 

 length of the fore borders ; wing-ribs and veins black ; shoulders 

 yellow ; middle cross-vein clouded with brown ; tip cross-vein form- 

 ing hardly less than a right angle with the fourth longitudinal vein, 

 curved inward near the base, straight from thence to the tip ; lower 

 cross-vein very slightly curved inward till near the tip, where it 

 is more slightly curved outward ; scales dark gray, with brown bor- 

 ders. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



Sarcophaga redux, n. s., fern. Nigra, cano vestita, thoraci vittis 

 tribus cinereis, abdomine maculis canis quadrivittato, apice pal- 

 lide rufo, antennis piceis, pedibus nigro-ferrugineis, tarsis nigris, 

 alis limpidis. 



Body black, clothed with black hairs and bristles: head adorned 

 with a hoary covering ; a black furrowed stripe fringed with bristles 

 between the eyelets and the feelers ; epistoma not prominent ; sides 

 of the face fringed with bristles at the base : eyes bright red : sucker 

 dark tawny : palpi black, beset with black bristles : feelers pitchy, a 

 little shorter than the face ; third joint linear, truncated at the tip, 

 nearly thrice the length of the second joint : chest and breast hoary : 

 chest adorned with three gray indistinct stripes, the middle one slen- 

 der: abdomen oval, gray, a little broader but not longer than the 

 chest, adorned with hoary reflections, which are disposed on each 

 side in two rows of large irregular spots, the middle being occupied 

 by a slender black stripe ; tip pale red : legs black, clothed with 

 black hairs and bristles ; thighs and shanks very dark ferruginous, 

 covered with gray, which has a tawny tinge; foot-cushions pitchy : 

 wings colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins pitchy, tawny towards the 

 base ; tip cross-vein forming hardly less than a right angle with the 

 fourth longitudinal vein, much curved inward near the base, straight 



