Diptera of St. VincPMt {West Indies). 361 



thickened on the basal portion, plumose ; second antennal joint 

 prominent, and with bristles. Proboscis black ; palpi slender, 

 yellow, brownish at tip, a little broader on the distal portion. 

 Mesonotum cinereous, with variable reflections, and with three 

 broad black stripes, and on each side of the median stripe a 

 narrow black line ; scutellum cinereous, its base black and tip red. 

 Abdomen conical, yellowish red, with a broad black stripe, some- 

 times interrupted at the sutures ; cinereous pollinose, variable in 

 different reflections ; clothed with short black hairs and stout 

 macrochaetae, as follows : three or four lateral ones on the first 

 segment, as many lateral ones on the second segment, and three 

 pairs of median ones; anterior, lateral ones, and a thick-set posterior 

 row on the third segment ; the fourth segment covered. Legs 

 black, the middle of all the tibiae red or reddish ; front femora 

 with a conspicuous row of long bristles on the under side ; middle 

 femora with a fewer number forming a similar row ; hind tibiaa 

 with about three pairs on the posterior side ; claws and the 

 yellowish brown pulvilli somewhat longer than the last tarsal joint. 

 Tegulae yellow. Wings cinereous hyaline, the anterior cells 

 yellowish ; small cross-vein at the middle of the discal cell ; angle 

 of fourth vein rounded. 



5 . Front above less than one-fourth the width of the head ; a 

 pair of reclinate vertical, and two pairs of orbital bristles present. 

 Abdomen black, with strong white reflections ; the fifth segment 

 red ; first segment with a single lateral bristle ; second with one 

 lateral and discal and marginal ; third segment with a discal pair 

 and posterior row ; fourth segment wholly covered. 



Numerous specimens. This species is apparently an 

 Eudexia, B. & B._, and seems nearest allied to R. fraterna,. 

 V. d. Wulp. 



SARCOPHAGID^. 



Sarcophilodes. 



Brauer and Bergenstamm, Denkschr. der K. Acad» 

 Wissensch., Ivi., 164, 1889. 



1. SarcopJiilodes puella, n. sp. (PI. XII., fig. 120his, 



head of $ .) 



(^ , 9 • Front broad, the median stripe scarcely one-third of its 

 breadth ; at the upper corner of the eyes with two bristles, the 

 inner longer one recurved, the outer one directed obliquely out- 

 ward; a pair of proclinate ocellar bristles ; and two orbital bristles, 

 the upper one reclinate the lower one proclinate ; on either side of 



