Sarcophaga. 



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Length 11 mm (after Bottcher 8 — 13 mm). 



S. laciniata is rare in Denmark, I knovv only one specimen, a 

 male, taken at Svenstrup (H. J. Hansen). 



Geographical distribution: — Middle Europe down into Italy; 

 not known north of Denmark. It is upon the whole a rare species. 



5. S. agnata Rond. 



1860. Eond. Atti Soc. Ital. Se. Nat. III, 385, 1 et 1862. Dipt. Ital. Prodr. 

 V, 102, 1. — 1896. Pand. Rev. Entom. XV, 194, 37. — 1907. Kat. palåarkt. 

 Dipt. III, 470. — 1911. Kram. Abhandl. Nat. Gesell. Gorlitz, 27, 31, Tab. I, 

 Fig. 15. — 1912. Bottch. Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 717, Fig. 11. — 1924. Stein, 

 Arch. f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 195. 



Male. Frons narrow, about one third of the breadth of the eye. 

 Orbits and face whitish seen from above, but mostly black seen from 

 in front; jowls grey; frontal stripe black. No outer vertical bristles. 



Fig. 42. S. agnata; to the right forceps 

 from behind. 



Fig. 43. Penis with posterior 

 claspers from behind. 



Bristles on cheeks of medium size, in more than one row. Jowls 

 black-haired. Occiput grey, with black hairs and whitish hairs cen- 

 trally and below. Antennæ with third joint short, at most one and 

 a half times as long as second, but reaching to lower end of the eye. 

 Palpi black. Thorax grey with the lateral stripes broader than the 

 median; three postsutural dorsocentrals; a pair of præscutellar and 

 some not strongly marked præsutural acrostichals. Scutellum with 

 Crossing apical bristles. Abdomen as usual grey and blackish tessel- 

 lated; third segment with a pair of marginal bristles; all sternites 

 with erect hairs. Fifth sternite with a brush. Genitalia not large; 

 præhypopygial segment greyish pruinose with somewhat slightly 

 marked marginal bristles. Hypopygium black; upper forceps cleft 



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