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yellow; apical joint black, long and slender in profile. 

 Beyond the middle it bears on each side a white fringe 

 or ruffle and on the back is deeply cut into by a trans- 

 verse notch in which the color is whitish. Fifth stern- 

 ite yellow, rather V-shaped with delicate hairs and 

 light colored pubescence along the inner margin. 



Female. See note under preceding species. 



Length 8-8.5 nmi. 



Twelve males. Three, including the type, from 

 LaFayette, Ind.; one from Wellington, Kan. (H. E. 

 Smith, Webster No. 7319, from dead grasshoppers 

 collected outdoors and placed in cage) ; one from Se- 

 ward Co. (F. X. Williams) in Univ. of Kan. collec- 

 tion; one from Falls Church, Va. (C. T. Greene, col- 

 lector) in Forest Insect collection of the Bureau of 

 Entomology; five from Manahawkin and Wenonah, 

 N. J. (Harbeck) ; one from Algonquin, 111. (Dr. Na- 

 son, collector, in author's collection). 



Holotype.— Male, No. 20.520, U. S. N. M. 



No. 59. Sarcophaga falciformis n. sp. 



Characters the same as excisa except the follow- 

 ing: 



Front .163 of head. Hairs around vibrissa and 

 on the parafacials rather strong; frontals 12 in num- 

 ber. Mesonotum with rather abundant erect hairs and 

 strong bristles. Fourth abdominal segment entirely 

 black. Forceps yellow at base, becoming black at tip, 

 in profile wide and strongly curved forward suggest- 

 ing a sickle shape, with short black hairs, hardly 

 spine-like, at the bend behind; apex ratlier bluntly 

 pointed. Posterior clasper blackish, slender, rather 

 flattened at the apex; anterior clasper stouter but 

 nearly as long; penis with basal segment well devel- 

 oped, yellow, the apical one standing at an angle, yel- 

 low at base, with a broad, pale fringe on each side 

 from about the middle; the back part dividing into 

 two diverging claw-like flat processes bending for- 

 ward at the tip. Fifth sternite retracted and almost 



