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Abdomen mostly yellow in ground color with a median black stripe, 

 the fourth segment metallic with a coppery reflection and bearing 

 two irregular discal rows of bristles besides the marginals. Fifth 

 sternite with a few spines at the base of the lobes, but apparently 

 not so many as in the preceding species. Legs as in illingworthi, 

 but femora rather stouter and the tibia very slightly infuscated at 

 tip, Calypters with a distinctly yellowish cast. 



Length, 9.3 mm. 



Described from one male, Geraldton, Western Australia (Clarke, 

 1916), received from Mr. W. W. Froggatt, of Sidney, New South 

 y/ales. 



Type.— Cut. No. 28885, U.S.N.M. 



METALLEA NIGRIBARBA, new species 



Male. — Head as in illingworthi, but the ground color is more brown- 

 ish yellow, the parafacials a little wider, more sliining and with a 

 few dark hairs, and the cheek is clothed with brown hairs in its 

 whole width from the lower edge of the eye to the border of the 

 mouth. Dorsum of thorax much more coppery and with thinner 

 pollen, the hairs longer and more erect. The hair of pleurae black. 

 Both calypters distinctly infuscated. 



Abdomen with bluer median black ground color, expanding on the 

 hind margins of segments 2 and 3 and showing a slight green tinge; 

 fourth segment with scattered, erect, bristly hairs from very distinct 

 spots ; fifth sternite with brushes on the lobes as in the preceding. 

 Tibia yellow, not infuscated at tip; tarsi almost black, not much 

 lighter on the basal segment. 



Length, 7 to 7.4 mm. 



Described from three males collected at Seaford, Victoria. Aus- 

 traUa, by W. F. Hill. One of the specimens is returned to Gerald 

 F. Hill, of Melbourne, Austraha. The specimens are accompanied 

 by two puparia, which it is expected will be fxgured by Charles T. 

 Greene in a later publication. 



Type.— Cat. No. 28884, U.S.N.M. 



Family SARCOPHAGIDAE 



Genus WOHLFAHRTIA Brauer and Eergenstamin 



Wohlfahrtia Brauer and Bergenstamm, Zweifl. Kais. Museum Wien, pt. 4, 

 1889, p. 123; pt. 6, 1893, p. 165. 



WOHLFAHRTIA ATRA, new species 



Like meigenii, but the abdomen wholly shining black. 



Male. — Front 0.31 of head width (in the best specimen), with 

 rather plumbeous thin pollen; parafacials silvery with delicate hairs 

 above; antennae reddish at base, arista bare. Palpi dark yellow. 



