Sarcophila. 215 



third segment. Præhypopygial segment short above, bent rectangularly 

 down, with a row of bristles at the bend and a row at the hind margin. 

 Legs with hind coxæ not hairy behind; middle femora in male with 

 a dense row of strong bristles below middle; middle tibiæ with a 

 ventral bristle in botli sexes; hind femora in male with an antero- 

 dorsal and anteroventral row of bristles but no intermediate row. 

 Claws and pulvilli small and equal in both sexes. Wings relatively 

 short; first posterior cell open, ending before apex of wing; discai 

 angle rectangular or nearly, with a fold from the angle; cubital vein 

 with bristles to medial cross-vein. A costal spine present. 



The larva of latifrons is recorded to live on carrion and on dead 

 insects, possibly also attacking living insects (Sajo: 111. Zeitschr. 

 f. Entom. III, 1898, 149); it has the apical cavity very deep. 



Of the genus some five species are recorded, but only latifrons 

 is well known, and also occurring in Denmark. 



1. S. latifrons Fall. 



1816. Fall. Vet. Acad. Handl. 238 et 1820. Dipt. Suec. Muse. 40, 7 {Musca). 

 — 1826. Meig. Syst. Beschr. V, 31, 28 et 1830. VI, 374 (Sarcophaga). — 1845. 

 Zett. Dipt. Scand. IV, 1295, 15 et 1859. XIII, 6179, 15 (Sarcophaga). — 1862. 

 Schin. F. A. I, 567. — 1896. Pand. Eev. Entom. XV, 172, 3. — 1900. Villen. 

 Bull. Soc. Ent. de Fr. 364, 22 et 1907. Ann. Soc. Ent. de Fr. LXXVI, 394. — 

 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 495. — 1924. Stein, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 90, 

 6, 207. 



Male. Frons broad, considerably broader than the eye, only a 

 little protruding. Orbits and cheeks grey or greyish white; frontal 

 stripe blackish seen from above, from in front greyish. Orbits and 

 cheeks with fme black hairs; jowls black-haired. Occiput grey with 

 all black hairs. Antennæ black, second joint a little reddish. Palpi 

 black. Thorax grey or brownish grey pruinose, with three indistinct 

 darker stripes; it is black-haired. Abdomen grey or brownish grey 

 pruinose, third and fourth segment with three black spots at hind 

 margin, the middle spots elongate, more or less confluent to a middle 

 stripe. Abdomen black-haired with a not dense row of marginal 

 bristles on fourth and fifth segment. Legs black; middle femora 

 without apical comb, but with a row of strong ventral bristles about 

 middle, and hind femora with a row of posteroventral bristles. Wings 

 a little yellowish tinged, especially at base; veins brown. Squamulæ 

 yellowish white. Halteres yellow^ 



Female. Quite similar. Frons of the same breadth. Middle 

 femora without dense ventral bristles but with long, distant bristles. 



