NEW AND KNOWN VUSTRALIAN SARCOPHAGID FLIES. 185 



margin brown. Vibrissa^ inserted rather close to oral 

 inargin and considerably weaker than usual. Eight epis- 

 toinials. and about ten facials present. A row of ten 

 frontals beside frontal stripe; verticals well developed; 

 lateral verticals weak. A single row of black bristles behind 

 eyes ; occiput clothed with short pale golden hairs, becoming 

 longer below and then shortening again on the anterior 

 part of the genip which also bears a small number of rather 

 short black bristles. 



Thorax about a wide as head, ashy coloured and faintly 

 tinged with gold, with the usual three longitudinal black 

 lines, of which the middle one alone extends definitely on 

 to scutellum: sides of thorax distinctly tinged with gold. 

 Anterior spiracle clad with pale brown hairs. Of the 

 anterior acrostichals only the porterior pair is distinctly 

 differentiated: of the posterior set, only the prescutellars 

 are present. Three humerals; three intra-alars; dorso- 

 central row complete. Apical scutellars present. 



Legs black; femora, especially the first, faintly tinged 

 with gold. First femur and tibia not distinctly hairy. 

 Second femur hairy on proximo-ventral two-thirds ; distally 

 a "comb" is developed. Third femur hairy, but not very 

 heavily ; tibia hairless. 



Abdoincn clothed dorsally with short blaek reclinate 

 bristles, but ventrally it is much less hairy than usual. 

 Ilypopygium nearly black, hairy. Forceps very dark 

 brown : the proximal halves approximated and very hairy ; 

 the terminal third bare, slightly curved, pointed and with 

 a hump which is obvious when the organ is seen in lateral 

 view. Claspers bro^^^l. The penis is not unlike that of 

 Sarcophaga gamma in shape; first joint whitish, with black 

 markings posteriorly; second light brown and black, pro- 

 vided with several hooks and processes (fig. 1), some white, 

 others brown in colour. 



Described from one male captured by ]\lr. H. Hacker 

 in Brisbane, December, 1917. 



Type in Queensland Museum. 



