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Genitalia. — ^Accessory plates subtriangular, hairy. Fifth ventral 

 plate concealed in specimens examined by overlapping of ventral 

 edges of fourth notum. Claspers short and slender; anterior pair 

 curved forward and shghtl}^ expanded at very tip. 



Fem,ale. — ^These differ from males in the following important 

 characters : 



Head. — Breadth of front at its narrowest part slightly greater 

 than one-haK eye width. Frontal vitta equal to or shghtly wider 

 than each parafrontal. 



Legs. — Intermediate row of bristles of anterior face of posterior 

 femur at most represented by a few slender, weak bristles proximally. 



Abdomen. — Oval; vestiture throughout of short, reclinate bristles. 



Genital segments. — ^Not protuberant, not visible from above. 

 First genital segment divided into two lateral lips, ground color, 

 black or blackish and more or less grayish pollinose. 



Described from three male and two female specimens. 



Range. — Philippine Islands. 



In all three male specimens examined the lower row of bristles of 

 the anterior face of the third femur consisted of four bristles, two 

 near the center and one distal and one proximal to these that were 

 farther from the central bristles than these were from each other. 



SARCOPHAGA ORIENTALIS, new species. 



Holoty'pe.—'K^le, United States National Museum (No. 21499). 



Length. — 14 mm. 



Male, head. — ^Viewed from side parafrontals and genae with dark 

 reflections, not intensified on transverse impression. Breadth of 

 front at narrowest part about one-half eye width;, cheek height 

 approximately one-third that of eye. Front promment; frontal 

 vitta at narrowest part of front about same width as each parafrontal, 

 its sides slightly converging backward and the margins somewhat 

 effaced below ocellar triangle. Second antennal segment dark; 

 third at least twice length of second; arista plumose to beyond middle. 

 Back of head slightly convex, with three rows of black cilia behmd 

 eyes, otherwise clothed with whitish hair that completely covers 

 metacephalon. Cheek vestiture black. Gena with row of short 

 hairs close to lower eye orbit, continued as very minute hairs up on to 

 parafrontals. Palpi dark. 



Chaetotaxy . — Lateral verticals present; vibrissae inserted on luie 

 with oral margins; each row of frontals extends below base of vitta 

 and diverges slightly from mner edge of gena. 



Thorax. — Mesanotum clothed with short reclinate bristles. Hairs 

 covering anterior and posterior spiracles dark except at tips. 



Wi7igs. — Bend of fourth veui a slightly acute angle; anterior cross- 

 vein nearer end of first than end of second longitudinal; third vein 



