Gen. Dexia, Meigen.
72. Dexia divergens, n. s. (gen. Thelaira, Desv.), mas. Cana longa angusta, capite albo, frontalibus atris, proboscide palpis antennisque testaceis, aristâ plumosâ, thorace nigro-quadrivittato, abdomine testaceo semihyalino, vittâ fasciisque nigris, pedibus longis testaceis, tarsia nigris, alia subcinereis.
Male. Body hoary, long, narrow, with long black bristles. Head white; frontalia deep black, widening from the vertex to the antennæ; facialia without bristles; epistoma not prominent. Eyes bare. Proboscis and palpi testaceous. Antennæ testaceous, not nearly extending to the epistoma; 3rd joint slender; arista black, plumose. Thorax with four black stripes, of which the outer pair are broader than the inner pair. Abdomen testaceous, semihyaline, with a black dorsal stripe, and with a black band on the hind border of each segment. Legs long, testaceous; tarsi black. Wings greyish; veins black; præbrachial vein forming a hardly obtuse angle at its flexure, from whence it is indistinctly undulating to its tip which joins the costal at a little in front of the tip of the wing; discal transverse vein slightly curved inward near its hind end, parted by hardly more than half its length from the border, and by hardly less than its length from the flexure of the præbrachial. Alulæ whitish. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 11 lines.
Mount Ophir.
Subfam. Sarcophagides.
Gen. Sarcophaga, Meigen.
73. Sarcophaga ruficornis, Fabr. Syst. Antl. 287. 12. (Musca.)
Malacca. Inhabits also Hindostan.
74. Sarcophaga reciproca, n. s., fœm. Cana, capite albo, frontalibus palpis antennis thoracis vittis pedibusque nigris, abdomine subtessellato, alis subcinereis.
Female. Hoary. Head white; frontalia black, linear. Proboscis, palpi and antennæ black. Thorax with three black stripes, and with black lines intersecting the two intermediate hoary stripes. Abdomen slightly tessellated. Legs black. Wings greyish; veins black; præbrachial forming a right angle at its flexure, near which it is much curved inward, and is thence straight to its tip; discal transverse vein slightly undulating, parted by less than its length from the border, and by little more than half its length from the flexure of the præbrachial. Alulæ white. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 11 lines.