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Legs black ; middle femur with poorly developed 

 comb on the lower side behind; middle tibia with a 

 single bristle on the outer front side and with some 

 rather appressed villosity near the apex on the mner 

 side. Hind tibia with well-developed but not striking 

 villosity. 



Wings hyaline; no costal spine; third costal seg- 

 ment a little longer than fifth and sixth together. 

 First vein bare; third hairy part way to crossvein. 



Female. Front .325 of head. Back of head 

 with same light and dark hairs as in male ; easily sep- 

 arated from the related securifera by having two 

 rows of black hairs behind the eye instead of one. 

 Genital segments red, not conspicuous, the opening 

 circular; underneath the abdomen it is easy to count 

 five black and two red sternites, the latter small, the 

 last one forming a slight protuberance. 



Length 10-1.5 mm. 



Five males and one female. One male Charles- 

 ton, Mo. (Vernon King), "Reared from Lachnos- 

 terna"; one male, one female, Dallas, Texas, bred in 

 decaying meat (Bishop, "Screw worm No. 245") ; 

 one male Wernersville, Pa. (Harbeck) ; one male 

 La Fayette, Ind. ; one male Oahu, Hawaii (H. H. 

 Sever in). 



I am indebted to Mr. Parker for the determina- 

 tion of this European species. 



No. 97. Sarcophaga amoena n. sp. 



Male. Front .200 of head (one specimen) ; 

 parafrontals and parafacials deep golden yellow pol- 

 linose; frontal stripe blackish, well defined; frontals 

 about 13, moderately divergent below and reaching 

 to middle of second antennal joint; parafacial with 

 only small hairs in a row near eye ; ocellars small but 

 distinct from the hairs behind them; outer vertical 

 barely perceptible; antennae black, third joint three 

 times the second and reaching four-fifths of the way 

 to the vibrisScT, which are considerably above the oral 

 margin; second antennal joint with a good-sized, out- 



