SARCOPHAGA AND ALLIES 23 



Thoracic cha^totaxy (from specimen) ; ps dc only 

 two pairs, far back; ant dc 0; ant acr 0; prsc 1 me- 

 dium; hum 3 (one is small) ; phum 1 or 2 small; prs 1 ; 

 npl 2 large ; sa 2 ; inta 1 ; pa 2 ; stpl 2 with some large 

 hairs; scutellum with 2 marginal and a stout, some- 

 what smaller pair of decussate apicals, no discal or 

 subapical. 



Abdomen shining black; hypopygium large, of 

 similar type to Sarcophagas (to the tropical group 

 w^ithout ocellars, including liillifera, etc. ) . 



No. 1. Phrissopodia praeceps Wied. 



Wiedemann, Auss. Zweifl. Ins., ii, 355, 1830 {Sarcoph- 



aga) . — Cuba. 

 Desvoidy, Myodaires, 335, 1830 {Pcckia iinperialis). — 



Cuba [Macq.] 

 Macquart, Hist. Nat. Dipt., ii, 223, desc. and probable syn. , 



Dipt. Exot., ii, pt. 3, 252, note. 

 Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., n. ser., v. 310 (Sarcoph- 



aga fortipes). — Hayti. [G.-T.] 

 Brauer und von Bergenstamm, Zweifl. Kais. Mus., iv, 125, 



1889; vi, 163, 1893, type redesc. — Cuba and Chile. 

 Williston, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, xiii, 307, 1886, oc. in 



San Domingo {Pcckia). 

 Giglio-Tos, Ditt. del Mess., iii, 67, 1894, syn. and oc. — 



Mexico. 

 Williston, Manual of N. A. Dipt., 1908, 350, half-tone 



illustration {Pcckia). 

 [F. H. Snow, Kans. Univ. Sci. Bull., ii, 345, 1904, re- 

 ported the species from Arizona, but on examining 

 his material I found it to be Trixodes obcsa Coq.] 

 Male. Front .200 of head; parafrontals and 

 parafacials white pollinose, not very glistening, the 

 latter with an irregular row of fine but long hairs be- 

 low near the eye ; frontal stripe blackisli, the anterior 

 end twice as wide as near the ocelli; frontal bristles 

 about 13, the lowest three ])airs abruptly diverging, 

 and reaching almost to the middle of the second anten- 

 nal joint; antennas blackish-brown, third joint slen- 

 der, reaching five-sixths of the way to the vibrissit; 

 arista with rather erect and long plumosity for three- 

 fourths its length; palpi and proboscis black, ordin- 



