SARCOPHAGA AXD ^VLLIES 237 



Paraf rentals and parafacials golden; facialia 

 hairy much more than half-way (Mexico, 

 (Guatemala) 



No. 1.5. Notocliceta plumigera V. d. W. 



No. 112. Sarcophaga salva n. sp. 



Male. Front .191 of head (average of five, — 

 .178, .186, .193, .194, .202) ; parafrontals and para- 

 facials silvery polhnose, the latter with a row of small 

 hairs close to the eye; frontal stripe black; frontal 

 bristles about 11, rather broadly divergent below, 

 reaching almost to the middle of the second antennal 

 joint; ocellars present, outer vertical absent; anten- 

 na black, the base of the third antennal joint dis- 

 tinctly red, this joint only about a third longer than 

 the second (which is unusually long), reaching three- 

 fourths of the wav to the vibrissa, which are at the 

 oral margin; arista short-plumose for barely half its 

 length; palpi and proboscis black, ordinary; bucca 

 one-fifth the eyeheight ; back of head with three rows 

 of coarse black hair, the white hair below not extend- 

 ing forward of the metacephalic suture. 



Thorax cinereous pollinose, with three black 

 stripes, the usual outer short stripes (making five) 

 are indistinct; ps dc 4; ant acr 0; prsc or minute; 

 stpl usually 2; scutellum with 2 marginal, a minute 

 subapical, no apical. 



Abdomen gray, strongly tessellated; first and 

 second segments with only lateral bristles; third with 

 a median marginal pair and two laterals ; fourth witii 

 a row of eight which are submarginal, in the middle 

 they are at the last fourth of the segment; fifth ster- 

 nite yellowish-brown, in the base of the incision lined 

 with a brush each side and not spreading, then sud- 

 denly wider and bare, moderately diverging. 



Hypopygium small ; first segment black, opaque, 

 without bristles; second black, the sides reddish to 

 some extent, without bristles, normally opaque but 

 easily denuded; forceps reddish-brown, at base with 

 rather striking recurved hair which curls up over the 



