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longer and closer together, might be considered api- 

 cal. Venation as in Sarcophagula, but the hind cross- 

 vein a little beyond the middle between the front one 

 and the bend of the fourth vein. 



Type. — Sarcophila femoralis Schiner, the only 

 species mentioned by Brauer und von Bergenstamm. 



No. 7. Sarothromyia femoralis Schiner. 



Schiner, Novara Reise, 315, 1868, female (SarcopJiila). — - 



Brazil. 

 Brauer und von Bergenstamm, Zweifl. Kais. Mus., v, 365, 



1891, types and male; vi, 160, 1893, same. 

 Johnson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1895, 335> oc. at Lake 

 Worth, Fla. ; Psyche, xv, 1908, 76, oc. in Brahamas, 

 Jamaica, and Florida ; Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 xxxii, 75, oc. at Lake Worth, Miami, and St. Augus- 

 tine, Fla. 

 Male. Front .352 of head (average of two, — 

 .344 and 3.59) ; head cinereous pollinose, not silvery; 

 antenuce black, third joint twice the second and reach- 

 ing four-fifths of the way to the a ibrissiu, which are 

 very stout, slightly approximated, and almost at oral 

 margin; palpi long, somewhat clavate; proboscis 

 black, rather short, with small labella; bucca one- 

 fourth the eyeheight; back of head with several rows 

 of black hairs, none pale except a few below the neck. 

 Tliorax with dense, rather uniform pollen of 

 whitish-gray color, the stripes indistinct even when 

 viewed from behind, bristles large. 



Abdomen concolorous, with black median stripe 

 and a changeable one each side; second segment with 

 long, appressed black hairs on hind edge; third with 

 ]'ow of 8 bristles mixed with a few of the same hairs; 

 fourth with row of about 16. 



Hypopygium black, gray pollinose, strikingly 

 similar to that of Sarcophagula occidua. First seg- 

 ment w^ith row of four small bristles before hind 

 margin; second with two large and several small 

 bristles; forceps black, slender and tapering, straight; 

 accessory plate very large, suddenly narrowing to a 

 distal prolongation wliich is wider, shorter, and more 



