82 THOMAS SAY FOUNDATION 



The accessory plates are red to the tip and have 

 coarser hairs; the posterior claspers are stouter, and 

 have a deeper and shorter emargination to form the 

 terminal claw ; the anterior claspers are more rounded 

 at tij), then in cimhicis. 



Three males: Greene Co., N. Y., Carnegie Mu- 

 seum; and Pittsburgh, Pa., May 9 and 17, 1891, in 

 the author's collection. 



Type. — In the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege. 



The females might be expected to separate by 

 the characters given in the table ; but as I have shown 

 under cimhicis these characters are not regularly co- 

 ordinated in this sex; it remains therefore uncertain 

 whether the group of females there mentioned may 

 not contain a representation of this species. 



Parker's 15 males were from Mass., Vt., and 

 N. Y. 



No. 30. Sarcophaga taurus n. sp. 



Male. Front, .163 of head (average of two,— 

 .153 and 173). Parafrontals and parafacials golden 

 pollinose; frontal stripe black; frontal bristles about 

 14, rapidly diverging below, reaching fully to the mid- 

 dle of the second antennal joint; parafacials with al- 

 most no hairs of perceptible size; those that exist are 

 yellow; antenna3 black, rather elongated, third joint 

 fully three times the second, reaching five-sixths of 

 the way to the vibrissa?, which are at the oral margin. 

 Arista uncommonly long, with long plumosity for 

 three-fifths of its length; middle of face yellow polli- 

 nose; facialia bare, a little deeper yellow than the 

 face; palpi black, pro])oscis short and black; bucca 

 about one fifth tlie eyeheight; back of head with about 

 three rows of black liairs and numerous pale ones to- 

 ward the center and below; posterior orbit of the eye 

 golden pollinose; outer vertical bristles absent; ocel- 

 lars small. 



Thorax whitish pollinose with 3 to 5 black stripes ; 

 ps dc 3 ; ant acr none ; prsc almost none ; stpl 3 ; scutel- 



