286 DIPTERA. 
33. Sarcophaga xquata, sp.n., ¢. | 
Cinereous ; head ochraceous; frontal band, three thoracic stripes (as broad as the interspaces), reflecting spots 
on the abdomen, antenna, palpi, and legs black; no dorso-central bristles ; legs without hairs; hypo- 
pygium red. 
Length 8°5 millim. : 
Head ochraceous, with brown reflections ; front a little prominent, on the vertex half as broad as the eyes; 
frontal band black, as broad as the lateral portions; face perpendicular ; some minute hairs near the 
inner orbits; above the vibrisse are some short and beneath them several long bristles; inferior part of 
the cheeks equalling one-third of the longitudinal diameter of the eyes; occiput grey. Antenne black, 
inserted on or a little above the median line of the eyes; third joint three times as long as the second ; 
arista plumose for three-fourths of its length. Proboscis and palpi black. Thorax, scutellum, and 
abdomen yellowish-cinereous ; thorax with three distinct black stripes, which are as broad as the inter- 
spaces, the median stripe prolonged over the scutellum; thoracic dorsum with black hairs, without 
dorso-central bristles, except near the hind border. Abdomen elliptical, with blackish reflecting spots, 
arranged more or less in three rows ; hind border of the third segment with two dorsal and on each side 
two lateral macrochete, that of the anal segment with a complete row of strong macrochete ; hypopygium 
red, shining, densely clothed with black hairs, its first segment partly ochraceous. Legs black; tibie 
without hairs, but with several bristles ; foot-claws and pulvilli elongate, the pulvilli blackish. Tegule 
whitish. Wings greyish-hyaline ; small cross-vein beyond the middle of the mediastinal cell and on the 
middle of the discal cell; curvature of the fourth vein rectangular ; apical cross-vein concave at its base ; 
posterior cross-vein very slightly undulate. 
Hab. Mexico, Amula in Guerrero 6000 feet, ‘Teapa in ‘Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 
Two male specimens. 
34. Sarcophaga afficta, sp.n., ¢ 9. 
Cinereous; head ochraceous; frontal band, three thoracic stripes (narrower than the interspaces), reflecting 
spots on the abdomen, antennz, palpi, and legs black; no dorso-central bristles ; legs without hairs ; 
hypopygium of the ¢ red. | 
Length 8 millim. 
Head ochraceous ; front not prominent, on the vertex a little narrower than the eyes (¢), or as broad as the 
eyes (2); frontal band black, nearly as broad as the lateral portions; inferior part of the cheeks scarcely 
equalling one-third of the longitudinal diameter of the eyes; beard black, with some yellow hairs intermixed. 
Antenne black, inserted on or a little above the median line of the eyes; third joint three times as long 
as the second ; arista plumose to beyond the middle. Proboscis and palpi black. Thorax and scutellum 
cinereous, the thorax laterally yellowish, the pleure grey; thoracic dorsum with three black stripes, 
which are narrower than the interspaces ; thorax without dorso-central bristles, only laterally and near 
the hind border with macrochete. Abdomen conical (3) or ovate (2), yellowish-cinereous, towards the 
apex with an ochraceous tinge; the blackish reflecting spots not much extended, and somewhat in the 
form of three longitudinal stripes ; hypopygium of the $ yellowish-red. Legs black ; hind tibize without 
hairs, with bristles only ; foot-claws and pulvilli elongate in the ¢, the pulvilli yellowish-brown, Tegule 
whitish. Wings greyish-hyaline ; small cross-vein beyond the middle of the mediastinal and on the 
middle of the discal cell; curvature of the fourth vein rectangular, with a distinct appendage ; apical 
cross-vein incurved at its base; posterior cross-vein nearly straight. 
Hab. Mexico, Cuernavaca in Morelos, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith), Northern 
Yucatan (Gaumer). 
Several males and one female. 
