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which bend up toward the apex; one angle of this 

 plate is strongly chitinized, black and shining and lies 

 against the second lobe just mentioned, at the top of 

 the penis ; looking at the penis from the end there is a 

 hollow without any perceptible internal organs; 

 viewed from behind it widens rather noticeably just 

 before the tip and is not notched. 



Legs black; middle femur with comb; middle 

 tibia with two bristles on outer front side ; hind tibia 

 not villous. 



Wing hyaline; veins mostly yellow; no costal 

 spine; third costal segment distinctly shorter than 

 fifth ; third vein with a few hairs. 



Female. Front very wide, .393 of head (aver- 

 age of five,— .380, .389,' .392, .393, .409) with the 

 usual orbitals and outer verticals well developed. 

 Frontal stripe almost covered, as in the male, with 

 pollen concolorous with the rest of the front. 



Abdomen broad, marginal bristles of third seg- 

 ment rather feebly developed; genital segment gray 

 poUinose with a horseshoe-shaped opening behind, 

 within which the sclerites are red and shining. Mid- 

 dle femur without comb. 



Length 6-7 mm. 



Nine males and seven females: five males and 

 four females are from Morton County, Kans., 3200 

 feet altitude, F. H. Snow, collector, in Kansas col- 

 lection (one dated June, 1902) ; one male Socorro, N. 

 M. (Williston) ; one male Alamogordo, N. M., May 

 5, 1902; one male and two females, Koehler, N. M., 

 W. R. Walton; one male, Aberdeen, S. D. (Bishopp 

 No. 5178), July 29, 1915. 



Holotype.— Male, No. 20558, U. S. N. M., from 

 Alamogordo, N. M. 



Allotype.— Female, No. 20558, U. S. N. M., 

 Morton County, Kansas. 



No. 119. Sarcophaga pectinata n. sp. 



Male. Front wide, .341 of head (average of five, 

 — .333, .335, .338, .350, .351) ; parafrontals and para- 



