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THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLCGIST 



VII. DEXIID^ 



(Continued from pags 55.) 



VIII. 



SARCOPHAGID^- 



IX. MEGAPROSOPID.^ 



f the abdomen is rather densely set 



with subspinose macrochaetae.) 



4. Elongate subcyHndrical macrotype 

 eggs, hatching to coloured maggots 

 in the fat gut-like uterus, maggots 

 deposited near host — Myoceropiae. 



5. Very elongate subfiliform small ma- 

 •^ crotype eggs, hatching in the fat 



gut-like uterus to very slender 

 subfiliform white maggots, which 

 are deposited at weevil oviposition- 

 punctures in various green fruits 

 and buds, the maggots making 

 their way to the weevil grubs in- 

 side — Myiophasiiae. 



f 1. Elongate subcylindrical macrotype 

 eggs, hatching to white or 

 yellowish-white maggots in a 

 cordate double-sac uterus, the mag- 

 gots deposited on the food-sub- 

 stance — Sarcophagise G. U. 

 2. Elongate subcylindrical macrotype 

 eggs, hatching to white maggots 

 in a V-shaped double-sac uterus, 

 the maggots deposited in the nests 

 of various wasps and bees where 

 they feed on stored insect food 

 when such is present and on the 

 early stages of the host — Metopiiae 

 Eumacronychiia?, Para macrony- 

 chiise, Miltogrammia?, Macrony- 

 chiiae . 



1. Elongate subcylindrical macrotype 

 eggs, hatching in a very long ir- 

 regular coiled uterus, the maggot 

 clothed with long bristles — Mega- 

 prosopia?. 



