«16 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Sarcophaga ingens, n. s., fern. Nigra, capite aureo, thoraci vittis 

 quatuor, scutello pectoreque fulvis, abdomine maculis cinereis 

 qaadrivittato, apice fulvo, antennis piceis, articulo 3° basi fer- 

 rugineo, pedibus nigris, alis subcinereis. 



Body black, clothed with black hairs and bristles: head 

 adorned with a gold covering, clothed beneath with yellow hairs ; a 

 black stripe between the eyelets and the feelers ; epistoma tawny, 

 not prominent; sides of the face fringed with bristles at the base : 

 eyes red : sucker black, pitchy and clothed with tawny hairs towards 

 the tip; palpi black, beset with black bristles : feelers pitchy, about 

 two-thirds of the length of the face; third joint ferruginous at the 

 base, slightly convex above and beneath, almost truncated at the tip ; 

 bristle black, full twice the length of the third joint, feathered for 

 more than two-thirds of its length: chest adorned with four pale 

 tawny stripes; border of the scutcheon, and most part of the breast 

 pale tawny : abdomen obconical, a little broader, but not longer than 

 the chest, adorned with gray reflections which are disposed in four 

 rows of large irregular spots ; penultimate segment ferruginous 

 towards the tip ; last segment tawny : legs black, clothed with black 

 hairs and bristles ; thighs slightly tinged with gray ; foot-cushions 

 tawny : wings slightly gray ; shoulders yellow ; wiug-ribs pitchy ; 

 veins black, pitchy at the base ; tip cross-vein forming a little less 

 than a right angle with the fourth longitudinal vein, much curved 

 inward at base, straight from thence to the tip, joining the border 

 at some distance above the tip of the wing; lower cross-vein with 

 two slight curves, the lower inward, less distinct than the other, 

 which is outward; scales dingy white with pale yellow borders. 

 Length of the body 5^ lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines, 

 a. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Sarcophaga musca. Myophora musca, Desv. Essai Myod. 363, 



70. 

 a. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



Sarcophaga lineata, Meig. Dipt. v. 26, 17. Zett. Dipt. Scand. iv. 



1294, 14. Musca lineata, Fall. Muse. 40, 5. 

 a. France? 



Sarcophaga inops, n. s. fern. Nigra, capite aureo, thoraci vittis 

 quatuor auratis, scutelli margine postico pectoreque canis, abdo- 

 mine cyaneo-nigro maculis canis quadrivittato, apice obscure 

 rufo, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis cinereis. 



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

 with a bright golden covering ; a black stripe fringed with bristles 



