354 THE BLOWFLIES oF NortH AMERICA 
Melanodexia californica, new species 
Similar to glabricula, but with three postacrostichal bristles. 
Male. Head width 15.0; head height 13.8; length at antenna 
8.5 and at vibrissa 7.7; buceca 0.39 eye height; parafaciale 2.5 
in width opposite second antennal segment; distance between 
vibrissae 2.3; front at narrowest 0.10 head width, 0.16 at vertex, 
and 0.46 at lunule; eye height 9.4; second and third antennal 
segments in the proportion 1.3:1.9; facial carina high, sharp 
and well-defined. | | 
Thorax with three postacrostichal bristles. | 
Legs with middle femur with two or three anterior bristles 
near middle, about three anteroventral bristles and four or 
five posteroventral bristles basally in a short row; middle tibia 
with two or three anterodorsal bristles, one ventral bristle, two 
or three posterior bristles, and one or two posterodorsal bristles; 
hind tibia with one or two anteroventral bristles slightly beyond 
middle. | 
Female. Unknown. 
Type. Male, No. 54937, U. S. National Museum. 
Type locality. Placerville, Calif. 
Four male specimens, the type (Calif. Dept. Agric., No. 
P3012), May 19, 19380; one paratype from the same locality, May 
19, 1930; one paratype, Shingle Springs, El Dorado Co., Calif., 
May 16, 1931, H. H. Keifer; and one paratype, Los Angeles, 
Calif., May 23, 1908, E. D. Ball. 
Melanodexia glabricula (Bigot) 
Nitellia glabricula Bigot, Soe. Zool. de France, Bull., p. 594, 
1887; Ent. Soc. de France, Bull. 7:clxxxii, 1887. (Type, 
female from California, in Newmarket, England.) 
Pollena glabricula (Bigot) Brauer, Akad. der Wiss. Wien, 
Math.-Nat. K1. Sitzber. 1(108) :27, 1899. 
Melanodexia tristis Williston, N. Amer. Fauna 7:257, 1893. 
(Type, male from Death Valley, Calif., in Kansas Univer- 
sity.) New synonymy. 
Melanodexa glabricula (Bigot) Shannon, Ent. Soe. Wash. 
Proe. 28(6) :189, 1926. 
A medium-sized, glabrous, black species with a sharply de- 
fined carina and one postacrostichal bristle. 
Female. Head height 9.5; head width 10.6; length at antenna 
6.0 and at vibrissa 5.4; eye height 6.0; bucca shining black, 0.50 
' 
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