SAECOPHAGA AND ALLIES 121 



The type material was bred from Mclanoplus 

 devastator near Los Angeles, Cal. The writer ex- 

 amined the type in the National Museum, but it was 

 not at hand when the present description was drawn 

 up ; however, a male was used that had been compared 

 with type and was so labeled. The species appears 

 to be an iipportant grasshopper parasite in the West. 



Holotype,— Male, in U. S. N. M. 



No. 49. Sarcophaga peniculata Park. 



Parker, Proc. Bost. Soc .Nat. Hist., xxxv, 58, pi. vii, f. 

 44 {Ravinia), male only. 



Male. Front .204 of head (average of three, — 

 .22, .19, and .204) ; the stripe on upper part about 

 four times as wide as one side; lowest frontals hardly 

 reaching the middle of tlie second antennal joint, di- 

 verging moderately, so that the lowest ones are II/2 

 times as far aj^art as the rows are at the middle of 

 the front; sides of front and face golden pollinose, the 

 latter with fine hairs not in distinct rows; antennae 

 black, third joint more than twice the second and 

 reaching five-sixths of the way to the vibrissa?, which 

 are a little above the oral margin; arista plumose 

 hardly more than half way; bucca about tworfifths 

 the eyeheight; palpi and proboscis black; ordinary; 

 back of head convex, with only black hairs except be- 

 low, where there is some yellow beard; outer orbital 

 half as long as the inner, still not much larger than the 

 next hairs in the row. 



Thorax gray, with 3-5 black stripes; anterior 

 acr well developed, prescutellars of good size; scutel- 

 lum Math two long marginals and a subapical of fair 

 size, no apicals; 3 stpl. 



Abdomen strongly tessellated, with a median 

 black stripe; first and second segments with only lat- 

 eral bristles, third with a median marginal pair and 

 two laterals, fourth with a marginal row diminisliing 

 down the sides. 



Hpyopygium red, or the first segment a little 

 dark basally ; first segment witli a row of bristles near 

 hind margin ; second segment quite long, almost 



