LIST OF DIPTEEA. 827 



four broad tawny stripes, the middle pair double ; scutcheon and 

 sides of the chest armed with black spines ; breast clothed with 

 short tawny hairs : abdomen oval, tawny, tessellated with darker co- 

 lour, and having a slender black stripe on the back, a little shorter 

 and broader than the chest: legs black, covered with dark tawny 

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

 wings slightly gray, yellow at the base ; shoulders yellow ; wing- 

 ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous 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 from 

 thence to the tip, joining the border at some distance above the tip 

 of the wing ; lower cross-vein with two very slight curves, the lower 

 long and inward, the other short and outward ; scales whitish, with 

 pale tawny borders. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 10 

 lines. 

 a. Port Essington, From Mr. Gould's collection. 



Sarcophaga varia, Walk. Linn. Trans, xvii. 353, 60. 

 a. Port Famine. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



Sarcophaga gravis, n. s., fern. Nigra, capite aureo-fulvo, thoraci 

 vittis quatuor lateribus scutelloque fulvis, pectore fulvo-cinereo, 

 abdomine fulvo tessellato, apice subtus ferrugineo, antennis pedi- 

 busque nigris, illorum articulo 3° piceo, alis cinereis. 

 Body black, clothed with black hairs and bristles : head gold- 

 en tawny, clothed beneath with pale tawny hairs ; a black stripe 

 fringed with bristles between the eyelets and the feelers ; epistoma 

 rather prominent ; sides of the face fringed with bristles for half the 

 length from the base : eyes dark red : sucker black, clothed with 

 tawny hairs ; palpi black, with ferruginous tips, beset with black 

 bristles: feelers black, a little shorter than the face; third joint 

 pitchy, less than twice the length of the second, linear, or very 

 slightly decreasing in depth from the base to the tip, which is 

 rounded ; bristle pitchy, tapering, rather less than twice the length 

 of the third joint, feathered till near the tip : chest adorned with 

 four broad tawny stripes, the middle pair double ; breast hoary, with 

 a tawny tinge ; scutcheon and sides of the chest tawny, armed with 

 black spines : abdomen nearly elliptical, tawny with darker reflec- 

 tions, slightly tessellated, armed at the tip with black spines, 

 broader but not longer than the chest ; underside of the last seg- 

 ment ferruginous : legs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; 

 claws ferruginous at the base; foot-cushions tawny: wings gray; 

 shoulders tawny ; wing-ribs and veins pitchy ; veins black towards 

 the tips ; tip cross-vein forming an acute angle with the fourth Ion- 



