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No. 32. Sarcophaga sarracenise Riley. 



Riley, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, iii, 238. South Caro- 

 lina, larvae living in the cups of Sarracenia variolaris 

 and flava, feeding upon the decomposing insects 

 therein. 

 [For other references to sarracenia in literatrue, see So.r 

 cophaga sarracenioides and sternodontis.] 



Male, Front rather wide, .208 of head (average 

 of five,— .186, 208, .214, .215, .216). 



A little narrowed between the ocelli, where the 

 median stripe is about three times as wide as one side ; 

 pollen of front and face yellowish silvery; facial im- 

 pression red in ground color, which color extends in 

 one specimen up and down the face; some distinct 

 bristles and hairs in a row on paraf acial ; antennae red- 

 dish brown, third joint fully twice the second, and 

 reaching three-fourths of the distance to the vibrissfe, 

 which are at the oral margin; arista of usual length 

 and plumosity; palpi and proboscis black, ordinary; 

 bucca one-third the eyeheight ; back of head with three 

 series of black hairs behind the eye, and rather con- 

 spicuous pale beard; outer vertical bristle not differ- 

 entiated. 



Thorax with 5-7 black stripes, the usual inter- 

 mediate pollinose stripes being narrowly divided with 

 black, when viewed from behind ; ps dc 4, but the sec- 

 ond one from the suture sometimes reduced somewhat, 

 giving the appearance of only 3 ; 3 large stpl ; scutel- 

 lum with 2 marginal, 1 small subapical, 1 rather large 

 decussate apical pair. 



Abdomen wholly gray, tessellated, the latter 

 segments more sprinkled in the tessellation than 

 usual; first segment only with lateral bristles, second 

 with a pair of half-erect, rather large bristles, 

 generally with only depressed and rather small ones; 

 third segment with a subinterrupted row ; fourth with 

 a row of about 16, and its hind part more or less red- 

 dish. 



Hypopygium red, rather large; first segment 

 with pollinose hind edge and middle portion, not 



