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Wings strikingly long and wide, and of uniform dark brown 

 color, only the anterior part near base gradually a little yellowish. 

 In a male measuring 9.5 mm, the wings measured 12.5 long and 5 

 wide at middle. First posterior cell not narrowed at tip, hind 

 cross vein bisinuate. 



Length, 7.5-10 mm. 



Fetnale. — Wing not so strikingly enlarged; in a specimen 8 mm 

 long the wing measured 8 mm long and 2.5 mm wide; wing color a 

 little paler than in male ; abdomen depressed as in most species and 

 much wider across middle than in the male. Front tibia with two 

 hairlike extensor bristles ; middle tibia with two anterodorsal spines ; 

 three posterodorsal ; one flexor; hind tibia with three anterodorsal; 

 three posterodorsal. 



Length, 6.4-8 mm. 



Remarks. — Redescribed from 35 males and 13 females, collected by 

 Dr. David C. Graham in the high altitudes along the Tibet-China 

 boundary. Four males were collected in Yellow Dragon Gorge near 

 Song-Pan, altitude 12,000 to 14,000 feet, in the summer of 1924; all 

 the others were collected at Yu Long Si, near Tatsienlu, July 26-28, 

 1930. altitude 14,000 to 15,900 feet. 



Genus SARCOPHAGA Meigen 



Sarcophaffa Meigen, Systeinatische Besclireibung, vol. 5, p. 14, 1826. 



SARCOPHAGA (BLAESOXIPHA) VALANGAE. new species 



Figure 1 



Male. — First vein bare, posterior dorsocentrals generally three, 

 but a small or even a normal additional one may occur as the second 

 behind the suture ; without villous hairs on inner side of hind tibia ; 

 genital segments dull black or dark brown. 



Front 0.18 of head width, at narrowest, above middle (four meas- 

 ured 0.18, 0.18, 0.19, 0.18) ; ocellars normal, proclinate ; outer vertical 

 not differentiated; two upper frontals reclinate but the second pair 

 partly convergent; eight other frontals in row, which extends to 

 near tip of second antennal joint and diverges toward eye; para- 

 frontals narrow, brownish above, subsilvery below; frontal stripe 

 brown; parafacials subsilvery, a changeable dark spot in the pollen 

 at lowest frontals, the parafacial hairs rather numerous and bristly 

 below; facial ridges broadly curved outward in middle of the face, 

 converging markedly below, with small irregular setules extending 

 halfway up ; middle of face blackish ; cheek two-fifths of eye height, 

 with black hair except on hind edge ; back of head with black hair, 

 only a little pale about neck and below. Palpi black, proboscis or- 

 dinary. Antennae black; third joint one and one-half times the 

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