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what bell-shaped with the rim cut open in front where 

 there is a small black rounded group of minute or- 

 gans. On the apex on each side there is a long, pale 

 yellow, thin margin, bearing a heavy fringe of red- 

 dish hairs. 



Legs black ; middle femur without comb ; middle 

 tibia with one stout bristle on the outer front side; 

 hind tibia somewhat piceous, without villosity. 



Wings subhyaline, no costal spine; third costal 

 segment shorter than the 5th; first and third veins 

 each with a row of hairs. 



liCngth 7 mm. 



Two males, Portland, Jamaica, collected by C. 

 W. Johnson (Hough collection). 



Holotype. — In Hough collection. 



Paratype.— Male, No. 20573, U. S. N. M. 



No. 142. Sarcophaga texana n. sp. 



Male. Front .232 of head (average of three, — 

 .224, .231, .240) ; parafrontals and parafacials sil- 

 very, the former with a slight tinge of yellow, the 

 latter with a long row of quite distinct and almost 

 bristly hairs; frontal stripe black, rather narrow, not 

 very distinct above; frontal bristles about eight, the 

 lower one moderately divergent; reaching almost to 

 the middle of the second antennal joint; ocellar bris- 

 tles strong; outer verticals distinctly developed; an- 

 tennse brownish black, the third joint a little over 

 twice the second, reaching four-fifths of the way to 

 the vibrissa, which are at the oral margin and slightly 

 approximated; arista with rather short and dense 

 plumosity for half its length; palpi and proboscis 

 black, ordinary ; bucca nearly one-third the eyeheight, 

 with mostly pale hairs; back of head with two rows 

 of black hairs behind the eye, both of which run out 

 along the lower orbit. 



Thorax gray pollinose, with three to five black 

 stripes, the middle one slender; ps dc four, the fore- 

 most very small; ant acr not differentiated; prsc 

 smallish; stpl three stout; scutellum with three pairs 



