DIPTERA. x 329 
palpi tawny with black tips: feelers black; first and second joints ferrugi- 
nous ; third with a gray covering: chest with a hoary covering which is 
interrupted by five black stripes, the three inner stripes very slender ; abdomen 
black and hoary, tessellated; tip tawny: legs tawny; feet black; fore- 
shanks ferruginous ; wings very pale gray; veins black ; prebrachial vein 
forming a right angle at its flexure, curved inward near this, almost 
straight from thence to the tip; lower cross-vein with two very slight 
curves, the lower inward, longer than. the upper which is outward; alule 
white. Length of the body 4} lines; of the wings 9 lines. 
United States. 
SARCOPHAGA PALLIPES. 
Cana; palpi fulvi ; antenne articulis 10 et 20 apice ferrugineis; thorax 
nigro-eneo guinguevittatus ; abdomen e maculis nigris quadrivittatum, 
apice rufo ; pedes fulvi, tarsis nigris ; ale subcineree. 
Hoary : head clothed behind and beneath with white hairs ; frontalia 
bronze-black, linear ; mouth pitchy ; palpi tawny : feelers black; first and 
second joints with ferruginous tips : chest with five bronze-black stripes ; ab- 
domen tessellated with four rows of black spots ; tip deep red : legs tawny ; 
shanks darker than the thighs; feet black: wings slightly gray; veins 
black; prebrachial vein much bent inward and almost angular near its 
flexure, straight from thence to the tip; lower cross-vein with two curves, 
the lower inward, the upper outward: alule white: halteres tawny. 
Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 64 lines. 
United States. 
SARCOPHAGA CHRYSOTELUS. 
Nigra; caput lete auratum, facie alba; thorax cano quinquevitiatus : 
abdomen cinereum, nigro tessellatum, apice pallide aurato ; alis sub- 
limpidis, venis fusco marginatis. 
Black: head bright gold-colour, clothed behind and beneath with 
white hairs ; frontalia deep black, broader towards the feelers; face white ; 
mouth tawny towards the tip, clothed with tawny hairs; palpi and feelers 
black; third joint of the feelers reaching the epistoma: chest with five 
