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resemblance to hillifera and the outline of the gen- 

 italia. 



No. 102. Sarcophaga scoparia Pand. 



Pandelle, Revue ent. xv, 1896, 198, male and female. — 



East Prussia. 

 Bottcher, Deutsche Ent. Zeitsch., 181 3, 3, fig. — Europe. 



Male. Front .215 of head (average of five, — 

 .203, .205, .215, .221, .233) ; parafrontals and para- 

 facials with smooth yellowish-gray pollen, the lat- 

 ter with an irregular row of hairs near eye, some- 

 what coarse; frontal stripe broad and sharply de- 

 fined; frontal bristles about 13, suddenly divergent 

 below, reaching as far as middle of second antennal 

 joint; ocellars well developed, outer vertical absent; 

 antennae brownish black, third joint twice the sec- 

 ond, reaching four-fifths of the way to vibrissae, which 

 are at oral margin; arista long, plumose halfway; 

 palpi and proboscis black, ordinary; bucca half the 

 eyeheight, with black beard as far back as meta- 

 cephalic suture; back of head with about four rows 

 of black hairs, but the inner irregular, only a little 

 whitish beard about and below the neck and on the 

 hind part of bucca. 



Thorax thinly whitish-gray pollinose, with the 

 usual 3 to 5 stripes rather shining black ; ps dc 4 ; ant 

 acr ; prsc 1 ; stpl 3, the middle one large, and some 

 long erect hairs; scutellum with the usual two mar- 

 ginals, one smaller subapical, and one apical, — the 

 apical and subapical are rather large, and there are 

 rather frequent deviations in the scutellar bristles, 

 additional marginals, etc. 



Abdomen changeable black and whitish polli- 

 nose, the black parts seem unusually shining until 

 they are turned in a difl:'erent light, when they reverse 

 their color; first and second segments with only lat- 

 eral bristles; fourth with a marginal row of about a 

 dozen, diminishing at the sides. 



Hypopygium rather large; first segment red on 

 exposed part, the basal part somewhat infuscated and 



