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No. 8. Sarothromyia femoralis var. simplex n. var. 



Differs from the typical form only in having 

 plain front tibicV? and tarsi in the male. The material 

 examined shows no intermediate forms. I cannot 

 separate the females, except by associating them with 

 males taken at the same time or place. 



Four males, three females, Miami, Florida, Nov. 

 8 (C. H. T. Townsend), in the National Mnsemn; 

 one female. Ft. Worth, Fla., collected by Mrs. Slos- 

 son, probably belongs here. 



Holotype.— Male, No. 20,-t88, U. S. N. M. 



Allotype.— Female, No. 20,488, U. S. N. M. 



Genus SARCOPHAGULA Van der Wulp. 



Van der Wulp, Tijdsch. v. Ent., xxx, 173, 1887; Biologia, 

 Dipt., ii, 289, 1896. 



Brauer und von Bergenstamm, Zweifl. d. Kais. Mus., vi. 



164, 1893. 

 Front wide, about one-third the head in both 

 sexes, the middle stripe as wide as one side. Frontals 

 reduced to fom* pairs, not divergent, the anterior a 

 little below tlie base of the antenna\ One large or- 

 bital present in both sexes, the posterior frontal might 

 be considered a reclinate orbital, as it is far from the 

 next frontal and much closer to the orbit. Outer 

 vertical present in ])oth sexes. Parafacial narrow, 

 with a single row of minute liairs. Antennje as in 

 Sarcophaga, but tlie third joint only twice the sec- 

 ond; arista long-plumose on basal half, tlie last joint 

 much tliickencd at its base. Vibrissjc not approx- 

 imated, almost at oral margin. 



Fourtli vein with rounded, oblitpie angle, the 

 first posterior cell open a little ])efore the a])cx; third 

 costal segment very short; hind crossvein rather erect, 

 usually at a})oiit the middle between the anterior 

 crossvein and the bend. 



Type of genus, SarcopJiac/a occ'tdua Fabricius, 

 by designation of Cofjuillctt, Pi-oc. V. S. N. M., 

 xxxvii. (102, 1 <)!(). 



