278 THOMAS SAY FOUNDATION 



No. 133. Sarcophaga cistudinis n, sp. 



Male. Front .281 of head in holotype, but this 

 is shghtly shrunken; the other male gives .323; which 

 is normal. Parafrontals and parafacials gray polli- 

 nose, with changeable spot opposite the antennas; 

 frontal stripe dark red, rather broad; frontal bristles 

 about 13 in number, short, scarcely divergent ante- 

 riorly and only reaching as far as the base of the 

 second antennal joint; ocellar bristles distinct, with 

 a considerable series of coarse hairs upon and behind 

 the ocellar triangle ; outer vertical bristles slightly dif- 

 ferentiated; parafacials with only a few inconspicu- 

 ous hairs; antennae brownish black, the third joint 

 less than twice the second, reaching three-fourths of 

 the way to the vibrissfE, which are at the oral margin; 

 arista notably short, especially the bare tip, which 

 hardly projects beyond the long plumosity; palpi and 

 proboscis black, ordinary; bucca one-half the eye- 

 height, with black hairs, including most of those be- 

 hind the suture; back of head with several rows of 

 black hairs and a few pale ones around the neck and 

 below it. 



Thorax with rather glaucous pollen and the 

 usual three to five black stripes ; ps dc two large ; ant 

 acr hardly differentiated; prsc one large; stpl three 

 or four; scutellum with three marginals; one pre- 

 apical and no apicals. 



Abdomen gray pollinose, tessellated, with 

 median dark stripe; fourth segment entirely yellow 

 in ground color, including the sides and below; first 

 and second segments with only lateral bristles; third 

 with a dense marginal row of rather short bristles, 

 more than 20; fourth with a row of about 18, which 

 are placed a little away from the hind margin; fifth 

 sternite yellow, the sides not very divergent, with 

 rounded lobe on each side, which is of the same color 

 and not strikingly hairy. 



Hypopygium small; first segment yellow, quite 

 retracted, with a row of rather strong bristles along 

 the hind margin; second segment yellow, with rather 



