SARCOPHAGA AND ALLIES 275 



Legs black; middle and hind tibiae a little pice- 

 ous; middle femur with a comb of only four or five 

 conspicuous flattened spines below near the tip ; mid- 

 dle tibia with one bristle on outer front side; hind 

 tibia not villous. 



Length 7 mm. 



One male, Los Amates, Guatemala, February 

 18-28, 1905, collected by Professor Hine. 



Holotype. — In the collection of Professor Jas. 

 S, Hine. 



No. 132. Sarcophaga utilis Aid, 



Aldrich, Jour. Econ. Ent., viii, 19 15, 151, fig. — Logans- 

 port, Ind., etc. ; bred from pupa of Allorhina nitida 

 by D. E. Fink, at Norfolk, Va. 



Male. Front .283 of head (average of five, — 

 .273, .276, .281, .286, .300) ; parafrontals and para- 

 facials silvery, the latter with a slight tinge of yel- 

 low and bearing the usual hairs, which are somewhat 

 coarse. Opposite the base of the antennae the pollen 

 has a changeable dark spot. Frontal stripe wide and 

 black; frontal bristles about 10, widely diverging be- 

 low and reaching below the middle of the second an- 

 tennal joint; antennae black, the third joint 2^ 

 times the second, reaching three-fourths of the way 

 to the vibrissas, which are at the oral margin ; ocellars 

 distinct ; outer verticals strongly developed, nearly as 

 large as the inner; palpi and proboscis black, ordi- 

 nary. Bucca fully one-half the eyeheight, with black 

 hair as far as the metacephalic suture. Back of head 

 with three rows of black hairs, rather irregular, the 

 middle part and below with whitish beard. 



Thorax with gray or somewhat glaucous pollen 

 and three to five black stripes. The submedian gray 

 stripes are narrowly divided; ps dc four or five, only 

 the hindmost two large; ant acr none; prsc one; stpl 

 three; scutellum with the usual two marginals, one 

 preapical and one small apical. 



Abdomen grayish pollinose, strongly tessellated, 

 with a black median stripe and a shifting black stripe 



