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straight, with hooked tip; anterior clasper yellow, 

 curved, stout, with blunt tip; penis slender, yellow, 

 basal joint quite long; distal one slender for half its 

 length, then with a padlike, partly pale lobe on each 

 side, and a central short copulating tube turned for- 

 ward. 



CoxtC, femora and tibiae yellow, tarsi black ; mid- 

 dle femora without a comb ; middle tibia with two bris- 

 tles on outer side; hind tibiae not villous. 



Wings distinctly blackened at base ; a small cos- 

 tal spine; third costal segment nearly equal to fifth; 

 first and third veins hairy, the latter almost to cross- 

 vein. 



Female. Front .297 of head (average of two, — 

 .292 and .301) ; with the usual two orbitals, ocellars 

 stout and outer verticals distinct but not very large; 

 frontals about seven, extending to middle of second 

 antennal segment; divergent below (in male 12, 

 otherwise the same) ; antennae and palpi slightly 

 lighter than in male ; no apicals on scutellum ; genital 

 segment red, with oval opening; tlie sixth and sev- 

 enth sternites pollinose, modified into a distinct larvi- 

 positor which curves downward and ends in a some- 

 what blunt, shining point. Wings subhyaline. 



Length, 6-7l'4 mm. 



One male, two females: Tifton, Ga;, Aug. 30, 

 and Oct. 5 and 16 (Hough coll.). 



Holotype and allotype, male and female, in 

 Hough collection, University of Chicago; paratype 

 female. No. 20529, I.T. S. N. M. 



No. 68. Sarcophag-a larga n. sp. 



Male. Front .305 of widtli of head (average of 

 five,— .285, .304, .305, .308, .321 ) ; parafrontals and 

 parafacials silvery; the latter rather wide with a few 

 slender hairs in a row on the lower part ; frontal bris- 

 tles about 7, descending hardly below the base of the 

 second antennal joint; moderately diverging below. 

 Antennae black, the third joint twice as long as the 

 second and reaching four-fifths of the way to the vi- 



