SARCOPHAGA AND ALLIES 253 



Legs black; middle femur with a short but very 

 stout comb behind; middle tibia with two bristles on 

 the outer front side ; hind tibia not villous. 



Wings subhyaline; no costal spines; third costal 

 segment distinctly shorter than the fifth; first vein 

 bare ; third hairy nearly to the crossvein. 



Female. Front, .395 of head. Abdomen 

 broad; genital segment red with the same structure 

 as in commu7iisj middle legs broken off from speci- 

 men. 



Length 6-7 mm. 



Six males, one female. One male from Ope- 

 lousas, La., in the Hough collection; three from Tif- 

 ton, Ga., in Hough collection; one Alabama (C. F. 

 Baker; one La Fayette, Ind. (Aldrich) ; the single 

 female is from Arizona in the Hough collection. 



Holotype.— Male, No. 20559, U. S. N. M., from 

 La Fayette, Ind. 



Allotype.— Female, No. 20559, U .S. N. M. 



No. 120. Sarcophaga communis Park. 



Parker, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. vol. 35, p. 55, pis. 

 I to 5, male. 



Mr. Parker has discussed this species exhaus- 

 tively, using it as a type for illustrating the anatomy 

 of the group. 



Male. Front .212 of head (average of five, — 

 .206, .207, .208, .217, .221) ; parafrontals and para- 

 facials gray pollinose, with reflections that are rather 

 brownish than yellow; parafacials with the usual 

 bristles below near the eye; ocellars present; outer 

 verticals absent; frontal stripe broad, blackish; fron- 

 tal bristles about ten, the rows gradually diverging 

 a little anteriorly, but not to a striking extent, reach- 

 ing almost to the middle of the second antennal joint; 

 antennae blackish, the third joint twice the second, 

 reaching four-fifths of the way to the vibrissa, which 

 are at the oral margin; palpi and proboscis black, 

 ordinary ; bucca almost half the eyeheight, with black 

 hairs to and even behind the suture; back of head 

 with three rows of black hairs. 



