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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4: Zoology
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117. TOROCCA ABDOMINALIS, n. s. _Foem._ Viridis, capite pectoreque
albis, proboscide palpisque fulvis, antennis pedibusque nigris,
abdomine fulvo segmentorum marginibus posticis vittaque dorsali
nigris, alis nigricanti-cinereis, alulis albido-cinereis.
_Female._ Green, bristly; head and pectus white; frontalia deep black,
widening to the face, with a row of bristles along each side; facialia
without bristles; epistoma not prominent; eyes bare; proboscis and
palpi tawny; antennæ black: abdomen tawny, with a few spines; hind
borders of the segments black; 1st segment black at the base, and with
a broad black stripe: legs black; wings blackish cinereous; veins
black; præbrachial vein forming an almost right angle, and emitting a
short stump at its flexure, nearly straight from thence to its tip;
discal transverse vein very undulating, parted by about half its
length from the border, and by much less than its length from the
flexure of the præbrachial; alulæ whitish cinereous. Length of the
body 5-1/2 lines; of the wings 8 lines.
Subfam. SARCOPHAGIDES, _Walk._
Gen. SARCOPHAGA, _Meigen_.
118. Sarcophaga invaria, _Walk._ See Vol. III. p. 103.
119. Sarcophaga aliena, _Walk._ See Vol. I. p. 22.
120. SARCOPHAGA MENDAX, n. s. _Mas._ Cinerea, capite albo, palpis
antennis pedibusque nigris, thorace vittisque lineisque duabus nigris,
abdomine tessellato vittis tribus nigris, vittis lateralibus e strigis
lanceolatis, alis cinereis, alulis albis.
_Male._ Cinereous; head white, clothed behind and beneath with
cinereous hairs; frontalia deep black, widening towards the face;
palpi and antennæ black; thorax with five black stripes, the exterior
pair incomplete, the middle cinereous intervals interlined; abdomen
tessellated, with three black stripes, the lateral pair forming
lanceolate streaks on the 3rd and 4th segments; legs black, very
stout; wings grey; veins black; præbrachial vein forming a right angle
at its flexure, near which it is curved inward, and is thence almost
straight to its tip; discal transverse vein slightly curved near each
end, parted by much less than its length from the border, and from the
flexure of the præbrachial; alulæ white. Length of the body 6 lines;
of the wings 10 lines.
121. SARCOPHAGA INEXTRICATA, n. s. _Foem._ Cinerea, capitis lateribus
anticis, palpis, antennis pedibusque nigris, thorace vittis tribus
lineisque duabus nigris, abdomine fasciis tribus subinterruptis
albidis, alis cinereis, alulis albis.
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