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Vol. XXIV. September, 1916. No. 3 



SAR .PHAGID^ OF NEW ENGLAND: GENUS 

 SARCOPHAGA.i 



By R. R. Parker, 

 BozEMAN, Mont. 



Sarcophaga pachyprocta, new species. 



iSSi. Sarcophaga pachyprocta Hagen, Can. Ent., vol. 13, pp. 148-149. 

 Occurrence. 



Type : Massachusetts Agricultural College, male and female. 



Paratypes : United States National Museum, one male, one female 

 (no. 19168) ; Boston Society of Natural History, one male, three 

 females; Gypsy Moth Parasite Laboratory at Melrose Highlands, 

 Mass., one male, one female; collection of C. W. Johnson, one male, 

 two females ; collection of author, two males, one female. 



Male. — Breadth of front at its narrowest part from five-sevenths to five- 

 sixths eye width; arista shortly plumose on basal half; vestiture of back of 

 head black except for a narrow hand of yellow hair just above foramen and 

 similarly colored hairs on a small portion of the metacephalon just beneath ; 

 cheeks clothed with black bristles and bristle-like hairs ; lateral verticals 

 present ; greater ocellars nearly as strong or sometimes stronger than upper- 

 most pair of frontals ; first and third veins prominently bristly ; costal spine 

 short but distinct ; section III of costa practically equal to section V ; vesti- 

 ture of legs short except for scattered, long hairs on ventral surfaces of middle 

 and hind femora; middle femur without posterior ventral row of bristles; 



1 Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College. 



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