SARCOPHAGA AND ALLIES 179 



without developed larvipositor, tlie orifice rather wide, 

 with a few bristles. 



Legs black; middle femora without comb; mid- 

 dle tibia with two bristles on outer front side. 



Wings hyaline; a small costal spine; third costal 

 segment noticeably shorter than fifth; first and third 

 veins hairy, and Avith slender hairs on the under side 

 also. 



Length 9 mm. 



Two females, Cordoba, JNIexico, collected by 

 Frederick Knab on March 25, 1908 (National Mu- 

 semn). 



According to Van der Wulp, the male has all the 

 femora and tibi^ villous on the flexor side, and the 

 "hypopygium brownish-red, densely haired." 



Type. — Male, in the Godman and Salvin collec- 

 tion, London. 



No. 81. Sarcophaga cabensis n. sp. 



Male. Front wide, .286 of head, protuberant at 

 base of antennae; parafrontals gray pollinose, with 

 numerous fine hairs; 8 or 9 frontals, the anterior 3 

 parallel with eye margin but moderately divergent 

 from the middle line; lowest at middle of second an- 

 tennal joint; outer vertical not differentiated; para- 

 facials gray pollinose, rather wide, with the usual row 

 of hairs, the lower bristly; vibrissa? barely above oral 

 margin, with numerous hairs not in a row extending 

 over half way up the ridges; antenna? blackish, third 

 joint nearly four times the second and reaching five- 

 sixths of the way to the vibrissa ; palpi and proboscis 

 black, ordinary ; bucca one-half the eyeheight ; occiput 

 with about two rows of black hairs, long yellowish 

 hairs above and at the sides of the foramen, as well as 

 below. 



Thorax gray pollinose with 3 to 5 black stripes; 

 anterior acrostichals present, two or three moderate 

 pairs; 4 ps dc; 3 stout stpl; scutellum with 3 stout 

 marginal pairs, 1 sul)a])ical (scars only in the speci- 

 men) ; 1 smallish apical ])air. 



