SIO LIST OF DIPTERA. 



tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; tip cross-vein forming a 

 slightly obtuse angle with the fourth longitudinal vein, slightly 

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

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

 vein slightly curved inward near the base, straight from thence to 

 the tip ; scales white. Length of the body 2| lines ; of the wings 

 5\ lines. 

 a. North America? Presented by the Entomological Club. 



Sarcophaga rapax, n. s., fem. Nigra, capite argenteo, thoraci vit- 

 tis quatuor lateribus scutello pectoreque cinereis, abdomine ma- 

 culis fulvo-cinereis quadrivittato, apice ultimo rufo, antennis 

 pedibusque nigris, tibiis piceis, alls subcinereis. 

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

 with silvery lustre ; a black stripe fringed with bristles between the 

 eyelets and the feelers ; epistoma not prominent ; sides of the face 

 fringed with bristles at the base : eyes pitchy : sucker pitchy, 

 clothed with tawny hairs ; palpi black, beset with black bristles : 

 feelers black, as long as the face ; third joint about twice the length 

 of the second, flat above, very slightly convex beneath, rounded at 

 the tip ; bristle more than twice the length of the third joint, fea- 

 thered for two-thirds of its length : chest adorned with four gray 

 stripes ; sides, breast, and scutcheon gray : abdomen nearly ellipti- 

 cal, a little shorter and broader than the chest, adorned with gray 

 reflections, which have a slight tawny tinge, and are disposed 

 in four rows of large irregular spots ; extreme tip red: legs black, 

 clothed with black hairs and bristles ; shanks pitchy ; foot-cushions 

 tawny : wings slightly gray ; shoulders and wing-ribs tawny; veins 

 black, pitchy at the base ; tip cross-vein forming a slightly obtuse an- 

 gle with the fourth longitudinal vein, slightly curved inward at the 

 base, straight from thence to the tip, joining the border at some dis- 

 tance above the tip of the wing; lower cross-vein nearly straight ; 

 scales white. Length of the body 1^ line ; of the wings 3 lines. 

 a. North America? Presented by the Entomological Club. 



Sarcophaga anxia, n. s., fem. Nigra, capite aureo, thoraci vittis 

 quatuor scutello pectoreque canis, abdomine maculis fulvo-canis 

 quadrivittato, apice rufo, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis sub- 

 limpidis. 

 Body black, clothed with black hairs and bristles : head 



adorned with a gulden covering ; a black stripe fringed with bristles 



from the eyelets to the feelers ; peristoma and epistoma ferruginous ; 



epistoma not prominent : eyes red : sucker pitchy, clothed with taw- 



