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DIPTHRA. 325 
fovewe whitish: mouth, palpi and feelers black; third joint of the feelers 
pitchy: chest with siw white stripes, the outermost pair irregular, connected 
in front with the next pair: abdomen tessellated with white and black ; tip 
deep red : legs black; thighs with a white covering beneath: wings pale 
gray, darker at the base; veins black: alule whitish: halteres tawny. 
Length of the body 44 lines; of the wings 9 lines. 
Jamaica. 
SARCOPHAGA AURIFINIS. 
Nigra; caput late auratum, facie alba; thorax cano quadrivittatus, 
~ lateribus albo vittatis ; abdomen e maculis albis quadrivittatum, apice 
rufo-aurato; tibie picee ; ale subcineree. 
Black : head bright gold-colour, clothed with black hairs; frontalia 
dull black, hardly widening towards the feelers ; face white : mouth, palpi, 
and feelers black: mouth clothed with short yellow hairs: chest with four 
hoary dorsal stripes and with a short white stripe on each side : breast 
hoary: abdomen tessellated with four rows of white spots; tip red with 
a bright gold-colour covering : thighs with a hoary tinge; shanks pitchy : 
wings slightly gray ; veins black: alule white: halteres tawny, with pale 
yellow knobs. Length of the body 3}—4} lines; of the wings 7—9 lines. 
Brazil. 
SARCOPHAGA COGNATA. 
Nigro-enea; caput lete auratum, facie alba; thorax vittis sex auratis ; 
abdomen cyaneo-nigrum, e maculis albis quadrivittatum, apice rufo ; 
tibia picee ; ale subcineree. 
Bronze-black ; head with a bright gold covering, clothed with black 
hairs; frontalia black, very slightly decreasing in breadth from the eyelets 
to the feelers; disk of the face white: mouth pitchy; palpi and feelers 
black: chest with six pale gold stripes, outermost pair short: breast 
hoary: abdomen bluish-black, tessellated with four rows of white spots; 
tip red: legs black; shanks pitchy: wings slightly gray; veins black: 
alule whitish : halteres tawny. ‘peal id of the body 3}—44 lines; of the 
wings 7—9} lines. 
South America. 
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