NO. 1198. DIPTEBA FROM PUERTO BICO—COQUILLETT. 255 



SARCOPHAGA DIVERSIPES, new species. 



Female : Black, the first two antennal joints, palpi, trochanters, broad 

 apices of the femora, and the genitalia yellow; frontal vitta dark brown, 

 sides of front golden yellow pruinose, changing to gray at the vertex, 

 one pair of orbital bristles, uo ocellar bristles, frontals descending 

 almost to apex of the first antennal joint, middle of face gray pruinose, 

 the sides and upper i)art of the cheeks golden yellow, remaining portion 

 of the cheeks brownish, sides of face each bearing a row of short, 

 scarcely perceptible, bristly hairs, antennae nearly reaching the oral 

 margin, the third joint slightly over twice as long as the second, arista 

 long-plumose on the basal three-fourths; thorax gray pruinose, marked 

 with three broad black vitta, a black streak in front of the insertion of 

 each wing and a second near the center of the pleura; three pairs of 

 large postsutural dorso-central macrochsetse, one pair of acresticbals, 

 and two sterno-pleurals; scutellum gray pruinose, the middle third 

 black; abdomen opaque, gray pruinose, three vittiB and the hind margin 

 of each of the first four segments black, the two outermost vittse being 

 composed of triangular black spots; wings hyaline, the third vein 

 bristly about one- third of distance from its base to the small crossvein; 

 calypteres white. Length, mm. Fajardo, in February. Two speci- 

 mens. 



Type.—Qskt. No. 4374, U.S.N.M. 



HELICOBIA HELICIS Townsend. 



Seven specimens, collected at Bayamon in January, and Fajardo, 

 Arroyo, and Vieques Island in February. This species is distributed 

 over nearly the whole of the United States. 



HELICOBIA species. 



A single specimen, from Culebra Island in February. 

 Family OALLIPHOKID^. 



CHRYSOMYIA MACELLARIA Fabricius. 



Two specimens, taken at Mayaguez in January, and Culebra Island 

 in February. The known range of this species is from Ohio south- 

 ward through Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and over the 

 greater portion of South America. 



LUCILIA CiESAR Linnaeus. 



One specimen, collected at Fajardo in February. A European spe- 

 cies, which is now distributed over the greater portion of the warmer 

 part of this globe. 



