end, parted by less than its length from the
border and from the flexure of the praebrachial. Length of the body 3-1/2
lines; of the wings 7 lines.

Subfam. SARCOPHAGIDES, _Walk._

Gen. SARCOPHAGA, _Meigen._

92. SARCOPHAGA COMPTA, n. s. _Foem._ Nigra, cinereo-tomentosa, capite
aurato subtus fulvo piloso, thorace vittis tribus nigris, abdomine
tessellato, alis obscure cinereis.

_Female._ Black, with cinereous tomentum. Head gilded in front, clothed
behind and beneath with tawny hairs, frontalia deep black, hardly
widening towards the face; thorax with three black very distinctly
marked stripes, the middle one dilated on the scutellum; abdomen
distinctly tessellated with six large cinereous excavated spots; wings
grey, praebrachial vein forming a right angle at its flexure, near which
it is much curved inward, and is thence straight to its tip, discal
transverse vein hardly undulating, parted by much less than its length
from the border, and by little more than half its length from the
flexure of the praebrachial; alulae white. Length of the body 5 lines; of
the wings 10 lines.

93. SARCOPHAGA INVARIA, n. s. _Mas et Foem._ Nigra, cinereo-tomentosa,
capite _maris_ albo, thorace vittis quinque nigris, abdomine tessellato,
alis cinereis.

_Male and Female._ Black, with cinereous tomentum. Thorax with five
black stripes, the lateral pair incomplete; abdomen distinctly
tessellated, the spots being much excavated; wings grey, praebrachial
vein forming a right angle at its flexure, near which it is much curved
inward, and is thence straight to its tip, discal transverse vein hardly
undulating, parted by much less than its length from the border, and by
rather more than half its length from the flexure of the praebrachial;
alulae white. _Male_. Head silvery white, frontalia deep black, linear;
tomentum of the thorax and of the abdomen more whitish than that of the
female. _Female_. Frontalia slightly widening towards the face. Length
of the body 4--4-1/2 lines; of the wings 8 lines.

Subfam. MUSCIDES, _Walk._

Gen. IDIA, _Meigen._

94. Idia australis, _Walk. Cat. Dipt._ pt. 4. 809.

Inhabits also Australia.

95. IDIA AEQUALIS, n. s. _Foem._ AEnea, capite subtuberculato, thoracis
lateribus pectoreque albido-testaceis lineis duabus lateralibus aeneis,
abdomine fulvo fasciis tribus aeneis, pedibus testaccis tibiis apice
femoribusque aeneis, alis cinereis apice nigricantibus.

_Female._ AEneous-whitish, testaceous b