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Bottcher states that in the female the genital 

 segment protrudes notably in the form of two plates 

 with a vertical fissure between them, bristly only 

 along the middle. He figures the structure. 



It would appear from the localities represented 

 that the species is limited to northern latitudes or 

 high altitudes. 



Type. — In the Pandelle collection in Paris. 



No. 103. Sarcophaga peltata n. sp. 



Bigot, in Sagra's Cuba, Spanish edition, vii, 1856, 344 

 {incerta, preoc. by Walker, Diptera Saundersiana, 

 1852, 324, an unrecognizable species from Jamaica). 

 — Cuba. 



Male. Front .178 of head (average of fiv^e, — 

 .172, .172, .179, .182, .187) ; with smooth golden pol- 

 len extending from upper part of parafrontals down 

 over parafacials and front half of bucca, and nar- 

 rowly bordering the eye behind ; frontal stripe sharply 

 defined, wider than one parafrontal above, black 

 above but reddish near the antennae; ocellars distinct 

 but small ; parafacials with only a few small hairs be- 

 low near eye; antennae black, third joint fully three 

 times the second, reaching four-fifths of the way to 

 vibrissse, which are at oral margin; arista plumose 

 for three-fifths its length. Facialia blackish, middle 

 of face gray; proboscis and palpi black, ordinary; 

 bucca one-third the eyeheight ; back of head with 

 about 2I/2 rows of black hairs, some white ones about 

 neck and forming posterior part of beard below, 

 Outer vertical absent. 



Thorax whitish poUinose with three to five black 

 stripes; ps dc four or five; ant acr hardly differen- 

 tiated from hairs except at front edge ; prsc 1 ; stpl 3 ; 

 scutellum with three marginal (the intermediate small 

 and close to the hindmost), one subapical, and no 

 apical. 



Abdomen tessellated with gray on the first three 

 segments, with golden on the fourth, which has mostly 

 yellow ground color; a shining black median stripe, 

 becoming brownish on fourth segment ; segments one, 



