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division which may be more or less closely applied to 

 the central mass. In both specimens the penis is cov- 

 ered with a gelatinous substance, making the details 

 difficut to see. 



Legs black; middle femur with stout but not 

 comblike bristles below ; middle tibia with two bristles 

 on outer front side; hind tibia not villous. 



Female. Front .353 of head, with the visual orbi- 

 tals and outer verticals the same as in the male. Palpi 

 yellow, somewhat thickened at tip; bucca with black 

 hairs almost to the suture. Hairs on parafrontals and 

 parafacials noticeably coarse. Scutelhmi without api- 

 cals. Genital segment red, shining except below; ori- 

 fice vertical with stout bristles above ; outer front side 

 of middle tibia with a row of stout bristles. 



Length 14 mm. 



Three males, one female. One male from Cry- 

 stal City, Texas, July 31, 1914 (Bishopp No. 3547) ; 

 one Texas (Melander) ;one Tifton, Ga. (Hough col- 

 lection). The female is from Ormond, Fla. (U. S. 

 N. M. ) . Professor Melander's male has the front as 

 wide as that of the female. The Georgia male and 

 the female were both erroneously included bv me in 

 the type material of utilis (Jour. Econ. Ent., vol. 8, 

 p. 152), the locality of the latter appearing as Or- 

 lando, Fla. 



Holotype.— Male, No. 20562, U. S. N. M., from 

 Crystal City, Tex. 



Allotype.— Female, No. 20562, U. S. N. M., 

 from Ormond, Fla. 



No. 124. Sarcophaga incurva n. sp. 



Male. Front .260 of head; parafrontals and 

 parafacials silvery, the former with a slight yellow 

 tinge, the latter with a few scattered hairs near the 

 eye; ocellars and outer verticals present; frontal 

 stripe black, not very well defined, as the pollen of 

 the sides more or less covers it; frontal bristles eight, 

 the lower ones strongly divergent, reacliing about to 

 the middle of the second antennal joint; antennae 



