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and Omilteme 8000 feet, all in Guerrero, Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco 
(H. H. Smith). . . 
Eight male and four female specimens. 
8. Sarcophaga surrubea, sp. n., ¢. 
Greyish; frontal band, three thoracic stripes, antennz, palpi, and legs black; abdomen black, with grey 
reflecting spots ; hind border of the anal segment, as well as the hypopygium, red; first and third veins 
bristly. 
Length 6-5 millim. 
Closely allied to S. stellata, and in most of its characters agreeing with it; but slightly larger, and with the 
head more yellowish, the front narrower (on the vertex nearly half as broad as the eyes), the antennz 
inserted on or even a little beneath the median line of the eyes, the hind border of the anal segment 
reddish, and the wings without costal spine. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 
A single male specimen. ‘This insect is perhaps nothing more than a variety of 
S. stellata. 
9. Sarcophaga plumigera, sp. n, ¢ 2. (Tab. VII. figs. 6; 6a, head. in 
profile. ) 
Head ochraceous ; thorax cinereous, with three black stripes; abdomen, including the hypopygium, bluish- 
black; antenne black, elongate, with strongly plumose arista. 
Length 9°5 millim. 
The front on the vertex in the ¢ much narrower than the eyes, gradually enlarging downwards, and, as well 
as the face and cheeks, brightly ochraceous ; in the 9 the head is yellowish, the front is less narrow 
above and with more parallel sides, and the frontal band is black and narrower than the lateral portions. 
The frontal bristles in the 9 are strong, especially the two pairs of orbital bristles (which are absent in 
the ¢) and the posterior pair of the bristles on the vertex. Lower part of the cheeks equalling one-fifth 
(3) or one-fourth (2) of the longitudinal diameter of the eyes; tucial ridges with a row of bristles. 
Antenne black, long and slender, inserted above the median line of the eyes; third joint five times as 
long as the second ; arista long, strongly plumose nearly to the end. Proboscis brown, its terminal lips 
with yellow hairs; palpi black, slightly enlarged towards the end. Thorax cinereous, with three well- 
defined broad black stripes and with distinct dorso-central bristles. Scutellum cinereous, with black 
disc. Abdomen elliptical (3), ovate (2), black ; the second and following segments with a bluish-grey 
tomentum, which is most conspicuous on their front borders; sometimes a black dorsal stripe is visible ; 
the two posterior segments with strong marginal macrochete; hypopygium black, with bluish-grey 
tomentum. Legs black; front femora on the outer side greyish ; hind tibise piceous; in the ¢ the legs 
are somewhat hairy, and the tibiz have scattered bristles, which aiso are present in the 9; foot-claws 
and pulvilli elongate in the g, the pulvilli brown. Tegule whitish. Wings greyish-hyaline: small 
cross-vein nearly under the end of the first vein and on the mindle of the discal cell; third vein with a 
row of short bristles from the base halfway to the small cross-vein ; last section of the third vein curved ; 
apical cross-vein arcuate ; posterior cross-vein slightly undulate. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 
‘Three male and two female specimens. ‘This species is a very distinct one. 
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