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somewhat longer than either of the others; posterior 

 clasper small, yellow except at tip, very slender, and 

 curved forward hut not hooked ; anterior clasper long, 

 slender at base, shining black or brown, widened and 

 truncate at apex, strongly curved forward; forceps 

 with yellow basal segment, the distal segment mostly 

 enclosed in a shining black hood-like envelope, which 

 has a large white spot on the side. This envelope 

 covers a large hump which is almost apical; on the 

 front side of this, separated by a concavity in the pro- 

 file is a broad ending of the central tube surrounded 

 by an expanded rim ; on the front side about the mid- 

 dle, two flat plates project, each of which has two di- 

 vergent teeth at its apex ; fifth sternite V-shaped, the 

 diverging lobes distinctly visible, covered with short 

 black bristles. 



Legs black; middle femur without comb; mid- 

 dle tibia with one bristle on outer front side below* 

 the middle; hind tibia with rather sparse villositj^ 

 mostly on mesial side. 



Wings almost hyaline, no costal spines; third 

 segment of costa slightly longer than the fifth; first 

 vein bare; third vein hairy for two-thirds of the way 

 to the crossvein. 



Length 8 mm. 



Seven males, four from New York City (Amer. 

 Mus.) ; one from New York City (Sturtevant) ; two 

 from Melrose Highlands, Mass. (H. E. Smith), and 

 one from New Bedford, Mass. (Hough). 



Holotype.— Male, No. 20.533 U. S. N. M., from 

 Melrose Highlands, Mass. 



Named in honor of Dr. Garry de N. Hough, 

 whose early retirement from the dipterological field 

 was a great loss to our science. 



No. 79. Sarcophaga tuberosa var. harpax Pand. 



■ Pandelle, Rev. Ent., xv, 189.- — Europe. 



Bottcher, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1913, page 735 (as var. 

 of tuberosa Pand.). 

 Male. Front .213 of head (average of two, — 

 .205 and .222) ; paraf rentals and parafacials shining 



