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17. Sarcophaga kappa n. sp. (Fig. 7). 



General appearance like *S^. aurifrons Mcq.. Length 12 mm. 



Male. — Head. — Front not prominent ; about two-fifths 

 the width of eye. Eyes dark red-brown ; frontal strip3 very 

 dark chocolate brown, and slightly broader than paraf rentals 

 at their narrowest. Parafrontals, genee, and back of head golden, 

 the latter very faintly tinged with dark. Ganae distinctly 

 paler than parafrontals. Proboscis nearly black with brown 

 hairs ; palps very dark brown. Mesofacial plates faintly 

 golden, more greyish at sides ; epistome pinkish, not very 

 prominent. First antennal joint inconspicuous ; second 

 black, tinged with silver, and a little smaller than usual ; 

 third joint rather over four times the length of second, and of 

 a beautiful fawn colour. A row of twelve frontal bristles 

 present. Verticals large ; lateral verticals absent. Seven 

 facials and eleven peristomials. A single row of black cilia 

 behind eyes ; hairs below thesa short and golden, developed 

 into a beard-like growth below ; hairs on anterior part of 

 cheek shorter and golden. 



TJiorax pale golden, with the usual three regular longi- 

 tudinal black stripes, the middle one extending on to the 

 scutellum, the laterals represented each by a pale-brown 

 discolouration. Sides golden ; ventral portion grey. Of the 

 anterior acrostichals only the posterior pair is developed ; of 

 the posterior set only the prescutellars, and these are con- 

 siderably weaker than the anterior intra- alar. Scutellar 

 apicals present ; also three humerals, the lowest not reaching 

 to the mesonotum. Dorsocentral row normal, the last pair 

 (prescutellar) reaching just beyond scutellum. 



Legj black, femora tinged with grey. First femur hairy, 

 tibia slightly longer than tarsus. Second femur hairy proximo- 

 ventrally, a " comb " developed distally ; tibia longer than 

 tarsus and not hairy. Posterior femur and tibia hairy. 



Abdomen as long as thorax, conical, with the usual black 

 and white markings, the median black line extending on to 

 last segment ; hairy below. First genital segment grey and 

 polHnose ; second dark brown, almost black, hairy. Accessory 

 plates dark brown with long hairs. Forceps shiny black, 

 curved ; tips bare, remainder hairy, especially proximally. 

 Claspers very dark brown, and articulating with one another 

 basally. First joint of penis dark brown ; the greater part 

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