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bristle on the outer front side, tlie villosity extends 

 upon the basitarsus ; hind tibia with only two bristles 

 before the tip ; hind femur and tibia botli swollen and 

 curved away from each other in the middle ; claws and 

 pulvilli all long. 



Wings brownish-gray, the base strongly black- 

 ened; no costal spine; third costal segment twice the 

 fifth and sixth together; fifth hardly twice the sixth; 

 first vein bare, third with a few hairs ; fourth vein bent 

 in an acute angle, barely appendiculate. 



Length 22 mm. 



One male, Santiago, Cuba, Oct. 2.5, 1903 (Capt. 

 W. Kobinson), in the National Museum. 



Brauer and von Bergenstamm state that in the 

 female the arista is short-plumose, and for only half 

 its length; as they have added Chile to the type local- 

 ity, I suspect that they have the wrong female, from 

 tliat country. 



Type. — In the Imperial Museum, Vienna. 



Genus WOHLFAHRTIA B. and B. 



Brauer und von Bergenstamm, Zweitl. Kais. Mus., iv, 123. 

 1889; vi, 165, 1893; Verhandl. Zool.-Bot. Ges., xliii, 

 1893, 501. 

 Portschinsky, Hor?e Ent. Soc. Ross., ix, 1-180, 1875, 3 pi. 

 and figs. (Sarcophlia), biology of magnifica, the type 

 species, etc.; ibid., xviii, 1884, 1-69, many figs., mono- 

 graph on the same, 1884. All in Russian. 

 Osten wSacken, Berl. Ent. Zeitsch., xxxi. 1887, 17, resume 

 of Portschinsky's papers .in English; p. t8, habits of 

 magnifica. 

 Coquillett, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, iii, 105, 1895 {Para- 

 phyto) ; Rev. Tachin., 1897, 122 (id.). [Johnson. 

 Psyche, xix, 103, 1912.] 

 This genus was separated from Sarcophila by its 

 authors on characters which seemed very slight except 

 as to the arista, which M\as said to be pubescent in 

 Wohlfahrtia, short-pilose in Sarcophila. I doubted 

 the validity of the genus until quite recently (and 

 hence referred opaca to Sarcophila in Ent. News, 

 xxiv, 215, 1913) ; Mr. Coquillett in 1910 (Type Spe- 



