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Bradley ,2 who reared the material during the summer of 1922 at 

 Magnolia, La. 



Genus SARCOPHAGA Meigen 



SARCOPHAGA DENTIFERA, new species 

 FiGUBJE 22 



Male.— Rend with front 0.214 of head width, average of two speci- 

 mens (0.221, 0.207) ; parafrontals and parafacials golden pollinose, 

 the latter with a row of minute bristles below near eye ; frontal bristles 

 about nine in number, the rows gradually diverging below to about 

 the middle of the second antennal segment; orbital bristles absent; 

 outer vertical bristles absent ; antenna black, third segment two and 

 one-half times the length of second and reaching three-fifths the dis- 

 tance to the vibrissae, which are normal and at the oral margin; 

 arista with long plumosity for three-fifths its length; palpus and 

 , proboscis black; bucca three-fifths eye height, 



~X \\liW^^^ ^^'^^^ ^^^^y black hairs before the metacephalic 



^v'fi^Wyy suture ; back of head with two rows of postocular 

 \'i/^i^^^^ ciliae, the middle and below with light hairs. 

 \/o<;&'^^^ Thorax gray and golden pollinose with the nor- 

 __jfe.|^J>|^^" mal three to five black stripes; pleura with some 

 "^^^^^^^^ golden pollinosity; anterior acrostichal bristles 

 ^^f^B^^k three or four; posterior dorsocentral bristles 

 ^^)^/f]W four; sternopleural bristles three; prescutellar 

 1^ bristles one; scutellum with three marginal 

 Figure 22.— sarcop;)fl£ro bristles, one preapical bristle, and one apical 



dentifera, n e w s p e- , . , , 

 cieB : Left lateral view bristle. 



of male terminaiia. Abdomen tesscllatcd and with three shifting 



black stripes, rather bluish metallic in certain lights ; median margi- 

 nal bristles on the third segment; fourth segment with a marginal row 

 of about 12 bristles. 



Hypopygium with the first segment black, covered with abundant 

 black hairs and without a marginal row of bristles ; second segment 

 red, with black hairs. Genital features as illustrated (fig. 22). 



Wing smoky; costal spine absent; third costal section as long as 

 fifth and sixth together ; first vein bare ; third vein with several basal 

 setulae. 



Legs black ; middle femur with comb ; middle tibia with one anterior 

 dorsal bristle ; hind tibia with some long hairs. 



Female. — Unknown. 



Type locality. — Iguazu, Argentina. 



Type and paratype. — U.S.N.M. no. 51690. 



2Journ. Econ. Ent., vol. 16, p. 312, 1923. 



