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Legs black; middle tibia with one anterior dorsal bristle and with 

 some long hairs; hind tibia without long hairs. 



Female. — Unknown. 



Type locality. — Obrilonys, Brazil. 



Type.—V.S'.'^M. no. 51692. 



Remarks. — Described from the holotype male specimen collected 

 in January (year and collector unknown). 



SAKCOPHAGA MINUTIPENIS, new species 

 FiGUEE 24 



Male. — Head with front 0.277 of head width; parafrontals and 

 parafacials bright golden pollinose, the latter with scattered minute 

 bristles below near eye; frontal bristles about eight in number, the 

 rows diverging below to about the middle of the second antennal 

 segment; orbital bristles absent; outer vertical bristles absent; an- 

 tenna black, third segment three times as long as second, reaching 

 four-fifths the distance to the vibrissae, which are normal and at 

 the oral margin ; arista plumose for almost its entire length ; palpus 



and proboscis black, both ordi- 

 nary; bucca one-fourth the eye 

 height, with intermixed black 

 and pale hair before the metace- 

 phalic suture ; back of head with 

 two and a partial third row of 

 postocular ciliae, the middle and 

 below with pale hairs. 



Thorax gray pollinose, with 

 the normal three to five black 

 stripes ; anterior acrostichal 

 bristles absent; posterior dorso- 

 central bristles four; sternopleu- 

 ral bristles three; prescutellar 

 bristles one; scutellum with two 

 marginal bristles, no preapical 

 bristles, and one apical bristle. 

 Abdomen tessellated and with 

 three shifting black stripes; median marginal bristles on the third 

 segment; fourth segment reddish with a marginal row of about 12 

 bristles. 



Hypop3^giuni yellow, first segment pollinose, with a submarginal 

 row of six bristles; second segment pollinose, rather flat and trun- 

 cated behind. Genital features as illustrated (fig. 24). 



Wing hyaline ; costal spine absent ; third costal section about as 

 long as fifth; first vein bare; third vein with several basal setulae. 



Figure 24. — Sarcophaga minutipenw, new 

 species : Left lateral view of male termi- 

 nalia. 



