SARCOPHAGA AND ALLIES 187 



covered by a broader lateral plate, out of which a pair 

 of stout black points project. 



Length 7 mm. 



One male from Tifton, Ga., June 13, 1896. The 

 specimen has one prochnate orbital bristle on the left 

 side. Also a male from Kushla, Ala., June 11, 1914, 

 from Mr. A. H. Sturtevant, without orbitals. 



Holotype.— Male, Xo. 20537, U. S. N. M., from 

 Kushla, Ala. 



No. 86. Sarcophaga cotyledonea n. sp. 



Male. Front .217 of head (average of three, — 

 .202, .224, .225) ; parafrontals and parafacials slim- 

 ing yellow poliinose, which color extends entirely 

 around the eye and covers the bucca ; parafacials w^ith 

 a few small hairs ; f acialia black, the intervening space 

 on the face yellow; antenuce brown, the third joint 

 about three times as long as the second, reaching fully 

 four-fifths of the way to the vibrisste, which are pre- 

 ceptibly above the oral margin and a little approx- 

 imated; arista plumose about four-fifths of the way 

 to the tip; frontal bristles about twelve, the rows 

 rather far apart and moderately diverging below, 

 reaching to the middle of the second antennal joint; 

 ocellars small; palpi and proboscis black; bucca one- 

 third the eyeheight; back of head with two rows of 

 black hairs, the second rather incomplete; beard 

 abundant, pale yellow. 



Thorax with three rather even black stripes when 

 viewed from behind; they are brown when viewed 

 from the front ; a yellow poliinose stripe from the hu- 

 merus and a similar spot on the mesopleura; ant acr 

 none; prsc of medium size; ps dc only two; stpl three; 

 scutellum with two large marginals, preapicals small 

 and almost in line with the rather large apicals. 



Abdomen tessellated, with median black stripes, 

 in profile deep and thick toward apex; first and sec- 

 ond segments with only lateral bristles; third with a 

 median marginal pair and one lateral; fourth with a 

 marginal row of 8. 



