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the middle part two broad diagonal irregular thin 

 plates extend forward, which in profile hide a pair 

 of stout, shining black hooks, which also extend for- 

 ward between the plates. 



Legs black; middle femur with comb behind; 

 middle tibia with two bristles on the outer front side ; 

 hind tibia with a few rather erect hairs on inner mesial 

 side, but not strictly villous. 



Wings hyaline; no costal spine; third costal seg- 

 ment slightly longer than the fifth; first vein bare; 

 third with several hairs. 



Female. The only specimen has lost its abdo- 

 men. Front .291 of head. Orbitals and outer ver- 

 ticals present; the dark yellow palpi are rather strik- 

 ingly long and broad, projecting nearly half their 

 length in front of the epistoma ; middle femur without 

 comb. 



Ijcngth 9 nmi. 



Two males and one female. One male from La 

 Fayette, Ind., July 11, 1914 (Aldrich) ; one male, 

 one female, Enola, Va., reared May 1, 1915, by Sara 

 Reynolds from a myriapod (Spar'oholus sp.). 



Holotype.— Male, No. 20561, U. S. N. M., from 

 Enola, Va. 



Allotype.— Female, No. 20561, U. S. N. M., 

 from Enola, Va. 



No. 123. Sarcophaga bishoppi n. sp. 



Male. Front .323 of head (average of tlu-ee, — 

 — .302, .314, .353) ; parafrontals and parafacials sil- 

 very pollinose ; frontal stripe brown, rather indistinct 

 above; parafacials with the usual row of hairs; fron- 

 tals about 12, the rows far apart, rapidly diverging 

 below, reaching almost to the middle of the second 

 antennal joint; ocellars distinct and outer verticals 

 large and strong, almost equalling the inner; anten- 

 nae reddish, third joint twice the second, reaching 

 four-fifths of the way to the vibrissas, which are at 

 the oral margin ; palpi yellow, large and rather thick- 

 ened, proboscis black, ordinary; bucca nearly one- 



