828 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



gitudinal vein, much curved inward near the base, almost straight 



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



tip of the wing ; lower cross-vein almost straight till near the tip, 



where it is slightly curved outward ; scales slightly gray, with dark 



tawny borders. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 16 



lines. 



a. — ? Presented by Sir E. Belcher. 



Sarcophaga striata, Meig. Dipt. v. 21, 7. Macq. Hist. Nat. Dipt. 



ii. 226, 12. Zett. Dipt. Scand. iv. 1286, 3. Musca striata. 



Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv. 315, 1 3. Syst. And. 288, 20. M. pernix ? 



Harr. Ex. 84, pi. 25, /. 13. M. carnaria, var. Fall. Muse. 38, 



1. Myophora striata, Desv. Essai Myod. 352, 49. 

 a. England. 



Sarcophaga chrysostoma, Wied. Auss. Zweif. ii. 356, 2. 



a. Brazil. Presented by Sir C. Stewart. 



b. Brazil. 



Sarcophaga impatiens, n. s., fern. Nigra, capite aureo micante, 

 tkoraci vitlis quatuor scutello pectoreque fulvis, scutello macula 

 nigra, abdomine maculis cinereo-fulvis quadrivittato, antennis 

 pedibusque nigris, alis subcinereis. 



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

 very bright gold covering, clothed beneath with bright golden hairs ; 

 a black stripe between the eyelets and the feelers ; sides of the face 

 fringed with bristles at the base : eyes red : sucker black, clothed 

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

 black, nearly as long as the face ; third joint about thrice the length 

 of the second, dark ferruginous at the base beneath, rather deep, flat 

 above, very slightly convex beneath, rounded at the tip ; bristle ta- 

 pering, less than twice the length of the third joint, its first joint ob- 

 solete ; second joint very short ; third joint leathered nearly to the 

 tip : chest adorned with four broad tawny stripes ; middle pair 

 double, narrower than the outer pair; scutcheon tawny, with a large 

 obconical black spot on its disk ; breast duller tawny : abdomen ob- 

 conical, a little broader but not longer than the chest, tessellated 

 with grayish tawny reflections, which are disposed in four rows of 

 irregular spots ; underside gray : legs black, clothed with black 

 hairs and bristles ; thighs tinged with grayish tawny ; foot-cushions 

 pitchy : wings slightly gray ; shoulders tawny ; wing-ribs pitchy ; 

 veins black ; tip cross-vein forming hardly less than a right angle 

 with the fourth longitudinal vein, curved inward near the base, 

 straight from thence to the tip, where it is very slightly inclined 



