SARCOPHAGA AND ALLIES 2.3 



bristle on the outer front side, tlie villosity extends 

 ujDon the hasitarsus; hind tibia with only two bristles 

 before the tip ; hind femur and tibia botli swollen and 

 curved away from each other in the middle ; claws and 

 pulvilli all long. 



Wings l)rownish-gray, the base strongly black- 

 ened; no costal spine; third costal segment twice the 

 fifth and sixth together; fifth hardly twice tlie sixth; 

 first vein bare, third with a few hairs; fourth vein bent 

 in an acute angle, barely appendiculate. 



Length 22 mm. 



One male, Santiago, Cuba, Oct. 2.5. 19().*J (Capt. 

 W. Kobinson), in tlie National Museum. 



Brauer and von Bergenstamm state tliat in the 

 female the arista is short-plumose, and for only half 

 its length; as they have added Chile to the type local- 

 ity, I suspect that they have the M^rong female, from 

 that country. 



Type. — In the Imperial Museunu Vienna. 



Genus WOHLFAHRTIA B. and B. 



Brauer und \on Bergenstamm, ZweiH. Ivais. Mus.. iv, 123, 

 1889; vi, 1C5, 1893; X'erhandl. Zool.-Bot. Ges., xliii, 

 1893, 501. 

 Portschinsky, Hor?e Ent. Soc. Ross., ix, 1-180, 1875, 3 pi. 

 and figs. (Sarcoplilia), biology of jinu/iiifica. the type 

 species, etc. ; ibid., xviii, 1884, 1-69, man\- figs., mono- 

 graph on the same, 1884. All in Russian. 

 Osten vSacken, Berl. F,nt. Zeitsch., xxxi, 1887. 17. resume 

 of Portschinsky's papers in luiglish : ]>. 18. habits of 

 magnifica. 

 Coquillett, Jour. N. Y. V.ut. Soc, iii, ]05. 1895 (Para- 

 pliyfo); Rev. Tachin., 1897, 122 (id.). | bihnson. 

 P.syche, xix, 103, 1912.I 

 This genus was se])arated from Sarco])lii]a by its 

 authors on characters which seemed very siiglit excejjt 

 as to the arista, whicli was said to })e })ubcscent in 

 Wohli'alirtia. short-j)ilose in Sarcophila. I doubted 

 the validity of the genus until (juite recently (and 

 lience referred opaca to Sarco])liila in Knt. News, 

 xxiv, 21.5. 19i;3) ; Mr. Coquillett in 11)10 (Type Spe- 



