102 THOMAS SAY FOUNDATION 



Wing siibhyaline ; no costal spine; third costal 

 segment shorter than fifth ; first vein bare ; third vein 

 hairy half way to crossvein. 



Female. Front .274 of head. The usual two 

 orbital bristles; third antennal joint less slender than 

 in the males. General color more grayish. Outer 

 vertical bristles present. No apical bristles on scutel- 

 lum. Second abdominal segment without median 

 marginal bristles. Abdomen distinctly reddish ; geni- 

 tal segment dull red opaque, enclosing a well devel- 

 oped short larvipositor like that of Jm uteri. Middle 

 femur without comb. 



Length, 5^-8 nmi. 



Five males and one female : one male and one fe- 

 male bearing label "from C. atlauis, Franklin, IST. H., 

 collected July 15. Flies Aug. 1st. C. L. M.," from 

 the collection of C. V. Riley, No. 42lX; two males 

 Sandusky, O., June 30, 1900 (Prof. Jas. S. Hine) ; 

 two males Aberdeen, S. D., July 12, 1916 (W. E. 

 Dove, collector) . 



Holotvpe.— Male, No. 20506, U. S. N. M., from 

 Franklin, N. H. 



Allotype.— Female, No. 20506, U. S. N. M. 



Marlatt, Insect Life, ii, 68, 1889, mentions this 

 as Sarcopliaga sp., and states that about 5 per cent, 

 of the grasshoppers in the outbreak at Franklin, N. 

 H., contained dipterous larvae. 



No. 41. Sarcophaga hunteri Hough. 



Hough, Kansas Univ. Quart., vii, 207, figs.; in S. J. 

 Hunter's bulletin "Alfalfa, Grasshoppers and Bees/' 

 from Ent. Dept. Univ. Kansas, p. 34, figs. 

 Morgan, Bull. 30, n. ser., Div. Ent. 25. 

 Kelly, Journ. Agr. Research, ii, 441. 

 Aldrich, ibid, 444, footnote. 



Male. (Type). Front narrow, .122 of head 

 (average of five,— .115, .115, .122, .123, .134). 

 Frontal bristles rather widely divergent below, 10 in 

 number, reaching the middle of second antennal joint. 

 Parafrontals and parafacials silvery, the latter with 

 the usual hairs, coarse below. Antenna reddish 



