LIST OF DIPTERA. 823 



from thence to the tip, joining the border at a short distance above 

 the tip of the wing ; lower cross-vein with a very short and slight 

 outward curve at the base, this is succeeded by a long but hardly 

 perceptible outward curve which continues till near the tip, where 

 there is an equally slight outward curve ; scales white, with pale 

 yellow borders ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the 

 wings 8 lines. 

 a. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Kedman's collection. 



Sarcophaga rediviva, n. s., fern. Nigra, capite antico aureo, thoraci 

 vittis quatuor cams, pectore cinereo, abdomine maculis fulvo- 

 canis quadrivittato, apice rufo, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis 

 subcinereis. 



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

 in front ; epistoma not prominent ; sides of the face fringed with 

 bristles at the base ; eyes dark red : sucker black, clothed with tawny 

 hairs ; palpi black, beset with black bristles : feelers black, a little 

 shorter than the face; third joint about thrice the length of the 

 second, slightly increasing in depth from the base to the tip, which 

 is rounded ; bristle about twice the length of the third joint, fea- 

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

 hoary stripes ; inner pair double : breast gray ; abdomen elliptical, 

 a little longer than the chest, adorned with hoary reflections which 

 have a tawny tinge, and are arranged in four rows of large irregular 

 spots ; tip red : legs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; 

 thighs tinged with gray; foot-cushions tawny : wings slightly gray ; 

 shoulders pale yellow ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy at the 

 base ; tip cross-vein forming a right angle with the fourth longitu- 

 dinal vein, curved inward near the 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, much 

 longer than the other, which is outward ; scales pale gray, with 

 tawny borders. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 

 a. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay. Presented by 

 G. Barnston, Esq. 



Sarcophaga rabida, n. s., fem. Nigra, capite pallida aureo, thoraci 



vittis quatuor scutello pectoreque canis, abdomine maculis canis 



quadrivittato apice rufo, antennis piceis articulis 2° apice 3°que 



basi ferrugineis.pedibus nigris, alis sublimpidis. 



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



with a pale gold covering; 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 dark red : sucker 



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