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DIPTERA. 821 
third joint linear, slightly truncated at the tip, about four times the length 
of the second: chest with short white stripes in front: abdomen bluish- 
green towards the tip: thighs and shanks thickly clothed with black hairs; 
shanks and feet black; onychia pale yellow: wings gray; veins black; pre- 
brachial vein curved inward beyond the flexure, straight from thence to the 
tip ; lower cross-vein with two rather deep curves, the upper outward, the 
lower inward: alule dark gray. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 
13 lines, 
SARCOPHAGA HIRTIPES. 
Nigra; caput et pectus aurata; palpi fulvi; antenne articulo 80 ferru- 
gineo; thorax vittis quatuor auratis ; abdomen canum, nigro tessel- 
latum, apice rufum ; pedes ciliatt; ale cinerea, basi subfusce. 
Black: head pale gold-colour, clothed behind and beneath with yellow 
hairs; frontalia black, widening from the eyelets to the feelers; epistoma 
prominent, tawny: mouth pitchy, clothed with tawny hairs; palpi tawny, 
black towards the base: feelers black ; third joint ferruginous, rather long : 
chest with four very slightly gilded stripes, each imner one inclosing a black 
streak; breast gilded: abdomen hoary, tessellated with black; tip red: 
thighs and shanks clothed with long black hairs ; fore-thighs cinereous 
beneath; wings gray, brownish at the base: alule dingy white: halteres 
tawny. Length of the body 8} lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 
Columbia. 
SARCOPHAGA PARVA. 
Nigra, cano-tomentosa; caput album ; thorax fusco trivittatus ; abdomen 
subtessellatum ; ale subhyaline. 
Black, with a hoary covering : head white ; frontalia deep black, linear : 
feelers black: chest with three brown stripes : abdomen slightly tessellated : 
wings almost colourless: prebrachial yein forming a very obtuse angle at 
its fexure, near which it is slightly bent inward ; lower cross-vein almost 
straight: alule white. Length of the body 1} line; of the wing 2 lines. 
Para. 
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