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400 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
of the third: chest with three black stripes ; breast with some black spots ; 
seutcheon mostly black ; abdomen black, with two yellow stripes, as long 
as the chest: legs yellow; thighs and shanks with two black bands: wings 
colourless, with about fifteen gray bands, which are distinct towards the 
fore border, but irregular and confluent towards the hind border; veins 
black, pale at the base; cross-veins clouded with dark brown ; lower cross- 
vein slightly oblique, almost straight: halteres yellow. Length of the 
body 1} line; of the wings 4 lines. 
East Indies. 
Scromyza CapEnsis. 
Fusea ; caput luteum ; thorax antice testaceo trivittatus, postice ferrugi- 
neus ; abdomen ferrugineum ; pedes fulvi, femoribus tibiisque apice 
tarsisque piceis ; ale fusca, maculis 10 apiceque albidis. 
Brown : head luteous, testaceous behind, nearly as broad as the chest, 
pitchy about the eyelets, on each side of which there is a partly ferrugi- 
nous partly black mark ; face and peristoma whitish yellow: mouth yellow: 
feelers luteous; third joint long-conical, much longer than the first and 
the second ; sixth black, feathered to the tip with moderately long hairs: 
chest with three pale testaceous stripes on the fore part, ferruginous with a 
hoary tinge on each side and behind: abdomen ferruginous, linear, nar- 
rower and not longer than the chest: legs tawny; thighs and tips of the 
shanks and of the feet pitchy: wings dark brown with about ten whitish 
dots; tip whitish; veins black: halteres whitish. Length of the body 3— 
33 lines; of the wings 7—8 lines. 
Cape. 
Scromyza antica, Fam. 
Nigra, cano-tomentosa ; antenne fulve, arista plumata ; abdomen fulvum ; 
pedes fulvi, antici picei ; ale subfulve. 
Black, with a hoary covering: epistoma not prominent : mouth piteby ; 
palpi tawny: feelers pale tawny; third joint about twice the length of the 
second, rounded at the tip; sixth black, feathered, much more than twice 
the length of the third: abdomen tawny, obconical, not longer than the 
