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SARCOPHAGULA. 
Sarcophagula, v. d. Wulp, Tijdschr. voor Ent. xxx. p. 173 (1887). 
This genus has the general habitus of Sarcophaga, but differs in the neuration of the 
wings, the second and third veins being straight, as well as the posterior cross-vein ; 
the latter is in the middle, or nearly in the middle, between the small cross-vein and 
the curvature of the fourth vein; the apical cross-vein is scarcely curved; the medi- 
astinal cell is very small. The antenne are inserted above the median line of the eyes. 
The inferior portion of the cheeks is very narrow. In both sexes there are two orbital 
bristles on each side of the front. The black stripes on the thorax and the black 
pattern on the abdomen are usually less distinct, and the hypopygium of the male less 
developed, than in Sarcophaga. ‘The dorso-central bristles on the thorax are con- 
spicuous. The foot-claws and pulvilli are short in both sexes. The species are all of 
small size. 
In the Mexican collections before me three species are represented :— 
1, Third vein with a row of bristles . . 0. 0.0. ee ee eee ee tmbecilla, 3, Some 
Third vein bare... ee eee 
2. Frontal band black . . 2... ee ee ee ee ee CaNUEA, 1 Be ae 
Frontal band reddish. 2. 1 ee ee ee ee ee ww LENMISL 1 - AS rv 
1. Sarcophagula imbecilla, sp.n., 2. 
Greyish-cinereous ; frontal band, thoracic stripes, reflecting spots on the abdomen, antenne, palpi, and legs 
black; third and anal segments with macrochete; antenne elongate in the ¢; third vein bristly. 
Length 3°5 millim. 
Head whitish-grey, with a yellow tinge; front of the ¢ as broad as the eyes, that of the 2 broader ; frontal 
band black, narrow. Antenne black; second joint prominent; third joint slender and elongate in the 2, 
more than twice as long as the second; arista thickened at the base, plumose to beyond the middle. 
Thorax and scutellum cinereous; thoracic dorsum with three blackish stripes. Abdomen elliptical (3) 
or ovate (Q ), greyish-cinereous, with black reflections, sometimes forming three longitudinal stripes and 
hind borders to the segments (in the @ the markings of the thorax and abdomen are browner and less 
striking); a pair of marginal macrocheete on the third segment, and a row of macrochetee on the anal 
segment; hypopygium of the g greyish. Legs black, with scattered bristles. Tegule whitish. Wings 
greyish-hyaline ; third vein with a row of short bristles; small cross-vein under the end of the first vein 
and on the middle of the discal cell. 
Hab. Mexico, Orizaba(H. H. Smith and F. D. Godman), Amula and Chilpancingo in 
Guerrero, Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 
Several specimens of both sexes. 
9. Sarcophagula canuta, sp.n. ¢ 2. (Tab. VII. figg. 12; 12a, abdomen in 
profile.) 
Greyish-cinereous ; frontal stripe, antenne, palpi, and legs black; thoracic stripes and reflections on the 
abdomen brown; second abdominal segment with two marginal macrochet. 
Length 2°5-3°5 millim. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Dipt., Vol. 1I., May 1896. 2p 
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