270 THOMAS SAY FOUNDATION 



with rounded aperture; sixth sternite shining yellow, 

 sinuously excised at tip; middle femur without comb 

 and slender; middle tibia with two bristles on the 

 outer front side ; hind femur not thickened, with only 

 a few bristles near the base below; hind tibia not vil- 

 lous, slightly shorter than the femur. 



Length 9-14 mm. 



A large series of specimens from Texas collected 

 and reared from carrion by F. C. Bishopp and asso- 

 ciates. In the Hough collection there are several 

 specimens from Texas collected by Schaupp. Speci- 

 mens from other regions are as follows: 



One from San Jose del Cabo, Cal. (Hough col- 

 lection) ; one from Coronado Ids., Lower California 

 (Professor Cockerell) ; three Pasadena and three San 

 Gabriel Mts., Cal. (Grinnell) ; one Williams, Ariz. 

 (National Museum) ; one Yuma, Ariz. (Professor 

 Hine) ; three Nassau, Bahamas, December 12 and 

 13, 1912, collected by Frederick Knab (National 

 Museum) ; three Cuba, near Pinar del Rio, Septem- 

 ber, 1913 (Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist) ; one Mayaguez, 

 Porto Rico, collected by C. W, Hooker (Nat'l 

 Mus.) ; one Seattle, Wash. (Hough collection) ; one 

 specimen (National Museum) bearing the Bureau of 

 Entomology label "No. 5477 issued June 1, 1892." 



Holotype.— Male, No. 20566, U. S. N. M., from 

 Victoria, Texas, bred from decaying meat. 



Allotype.— Female, No. 20566, U. S. N. M., 

 from same place. 



Mr. Bishopp says in regard to the habits (in a 

 letter), "A number of lots were bred from carcasses 

 of animals and exposed beef." 



No. 129. Sarcophaga bakeri n. sp. 



Male. Similar to assidua but with the following 

 differences : 



Front .216 of head (average of five, — .209, .210, 

 ,215, .217, .227) ; parafrontals and parafacials gray 

 pollinose, without a tinge of yellow; scutellum with 

 a pair of rather small apical bristles. 



