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Paratvpe.— Male and female, No. 20523, U. S. 



N. M. 



No. 62. Sarcophaga websteri n. sp. 



Male. Characters of eoccisa except as follows: 

 Front .158 of head; bucca one-fourth eyeheight; 

 about 10 hypoj^leurals ; second segment with a pair 

 of erect median marginals (one of them absent in 

 one specimen). Abdomen not so changeable, and 

 with three moderately distinct black stripes; fourth 

 segment entirely black. Forceps red, notched be- 

 tween basal and free part behind, the latter part 

 rather wide in profile, straight in front and curved 

 behind, with a prominent tooth bent forward at tip, 

 on outer side with minute spines; viewed from be- 

 hind the forceps are moderately diverging and more 

 spinose; both claspers well developed and strongly 

 hooked, the anterior shorter and heavier, dark at tip ; 

 penis with large red basal joint, distal one at an 

 angle, long, the basal half smooth; distinctly divided 

 just beyond middle, the apical median portion pale, 

 smooth behind, at tip notched or emarginate; anter- 

 ior to this the fleshy part of the organ has two lobes 

 on each side, one projecting forward, the other back; 

 fifth sternite yellow, V-shaped, somewhat hairy 

 along edge, with pale pubescence inside. 



Length 9 mm. 



Three males: Glencarlyn, Va., July 14; Ross- 

 lyn, Va., July 4; Kensington, Md., July 4, 1907, the 

 first and last collected by Frederick Knab, of the Na- 

 tional Museum. 



Named in honor of I'rancis INIarion Webster, 

 whose distinguished career in economic entomology 

 came to an end a few days before these lines were 

 written, and who in December, 1913, requested the 

 author to take up the study of the North American 

 Sarcophagidee. 



Type.— No. 20524, U. S. N. M., from Glen- 

 carlyn, Va. 



