328 INSECTA SAUNDBRSIANA. 
SarcopHaca assipua, Mas et Fem. 
Nigra, cano-tomentosa; caput albo-tomentosum ; thoraw fusco quinque- 
vittatus ; abdomen cinereum; pedes fulvi, tarsis nigris; ale sub- 
cinerea. 
Black, with a hoary covering : head with a white covering; frontalia 
deep black: palpi and feelers black : chest with five brown stripes, the inner 
pair very slender, indistinct: abdomen cinereous, with reflections : legs 
tawny; feet black: wings very slightly gray ; veins black, tawny at the 
base; prebrachial vein forming a hardly obtuse angle at its flexure, bent 
inward near this, straight from thence to the tip; lower cross-vein very 
slightly bent inward near the base, straight from thence to the tip: alule 
white. Length of the body 2} lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 
Var. 8. Second joint of the feelers red ; third red at the base. 
United States. 
SARCOPHAGA FULVIPES. 
Cana ; antenne basi ferruginee ; thorax nigro trivittatus ; abdomen nigro 
tessellatum, apice rufo ; pedes fulvi, tarsis nigris ; ale subcineree. 
Hoary: head clothed with black hairs; frontalia broad, linear, deep 
black; facialia and fovew white: mouth pitchy, ferruginous towards the 
base ; palpi black: feelers black; first and second joints ferruginous : chest 
with three bronze-black stripes: abdomen tessellated with black; tip pale 
ved: legs tawny ; feet black: wings very slightly gray; veins Diack; pre- 
brachial vein slightly bent inward and almost angular near its flexure, 
nearly straight from thence to the tip: alule white: halteres tawny. 
Length of the body 2% lines; of the wings 6 lines. 
United States. 
SARCOPHAGA BASALIS. 
Nigra ; caput argenteum ; palpi fulvi, apice nigri ; antenna basi ferru- 
ginee ; thorax canus, vittis quinque nigris ; abdomen nigro canoque 
tessellatum, apice fulvuum ; pedes fulvi, tarsis nigris; ale sub- 
cineree. 
Black: head silvery white, clothed behind and beneath with white 
hairs 5 frontalia reddish brown, linear; lateralia partly red: mouth pitehy ; 
