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the middle part two broad diagonal irregular thin 

 plates extend forward, which in profile hide a pair 

 of stout, shining black hooks, which also extend for- 

 ward between the plates. 



Legs black; middle fenmr with comb behind; 

 middle tibia with two bristles on the outer front side ; 

 hind tibia with a few rather erect hairs on inner mesial 

 side, but not strictly villous. 



Wings hyaline; no costal spine; third costal seg- 

 ment slightly longer than the fifth; first vein bare; 

 third with several hairs. 



Female. The only specimen has lost its abdo- 

 men. Front ,291 of head. Orbitals and outer ver- 

 ticals present; the dark yellow palpi are rather strik- 

 ingly long and broad, projecting nearly half their 

 length in front of the epistoma ; middle femur without 

 comb. 



Ijcngth 9 mm. 



Two males and one female. One male from La 

 Fayette, Ind., July 11, 1914 (Aldrich) ; one male, 

 one female, Enola, Va., reared May 1, 1915, by Sara 

 Reynolds from a myriapod (Sparoholus sp.) . 



Holotype.— Male, No. 20561, U. S. N. M., from 

 Enola, Va. 



Allotype.— Female, No. 20561, U. S. N. M., 

 from Enola, Va. 



No. 123. Sarcophag-a bishoppi n. sp. 



Male. Front .323 of head (average of three, — 

 — .302, .314, .353) ; parafrontals and parafacials sil- 

 very pollinose ; frontal stripe brown, rather indistinct 

 above; parafacials with the usual row of hairs; fron- 

 tals about 12, the rows far apart, rapidly diverging 

 below, reaching almost to the middle of the second 

 antennal joint; ocellars distinct and outer verticals 

 large and strong, almost equalling the inner; anten- 

 nae reddish, third joint twice the second, reaching 

 four-fifths of the way to the vibrisScT, which are at 

 the oral margin; palpi yellow, large and rather thick- 

 ened, proboscis black, ordinary; bucca nearly one- 



