82 THOMAS SAY FOUNDATION 



The accessory plates are red to the tip and have 

 coarser hah's; the posterior claspers are stouter, and 

 have a deeper and shorter emargination to form the 

 terminal claw ; the anterior claspers are more rounded 

 at tip, then in cimbicis. 



Three males : Greene Co., N. Y., Carnegie Mu- 

 seum; and Pittsburgh, Pa., May 9 and 17, 1891, in 

 the author's collection. 



Type. — In the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege. 



The females might be expected to separate by 

 the characters given in the table ; but as I have shown 

 under cimhicis these characters are not regularly co- 

 ordinated in this sex; it remains therefore uncertain 

 whether the group of females there mentioned may 

 not contain a representation of this species. 



Parker's 15 males were from Mass., Vt., and 

 N. Y. 



No. 30. Sarcophaga taurus n. sp. 



Male. Front, .163 of head (average of two, — 

 .153 and 173). Parafrontals and parafacials golden 

 pollinose; frontal stripe black; frontal bristles about 

 14, rapidly diverging below, reaching fully to the mid- 

 dle of the second antennal joint; parafacials Math al- 

 most no hairs of perceptible size; those that exist are 

 yellow; antenna? black, rather elongated, third joint 

 fully three times the second, reaching five-sixths of 

 the way to the vibrissae, which are at the oral margin. 

 Arista uncommonly long, with long plumosity for 

 three-fifths of its length; middle of face yellow polli- 

 nose; facialia bare, a little deeper yellow than the 

 face; palpi black, proboscis short and black; bucca 

 about one fifth the eyeheight; back of head with about 

 three rows of black hairs and numerous pale ones to- 

 ward the center and below; posterior orbit of the eye 

 golden pollinose; outer vertical bristles absent; ocel- 

 lars small. 



Thorax whitish pollinose with 3 to 5 black stripes ; 

 ps dc 3; ant acr none; prsc almost none; stpl 3; scutel- 



