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_.