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2. Second segment of hypopygium red ; forceps 

 slender ewubcraris Pand. 



To complete this grouping for North America 

 it would be necessary to add a third alternative: 



3. Both segments of hypopygium red; forceps 



parallel-edged sarraceiiioides n. var. 



Tuberosa is not known as North American. 



No. 110. Sarcophag-a bullata Park. 



Parker, Canad. Ent., xlviii, 359, 1916, fig. — Widespread. 



Felt, 28th Rept. N. Y. State Ent., 1913, 80-82, figs. 

 {georgina Wied. ; corrected, 31st Rept., 100. — bred 

 from carrion in New York. 



Weiss, Ent. News, xxvii, 166, 19 16, oc. in N. J. 

 Male. Front wide, .248 of head (average of five, 

 — .233, .234, .252, .2.54, .265 ) , narrowest a little below 

 the ocelli; parafacials and parafrontals silvery polli- 

 nose, with a slight yellowish tinge; the former with 

 irregularly arranged hairs, the lower bristly; frontal 

 stripe brown, wide; frontals 12, abruptly diverging 

 below, reaching beyond the middle of the second an- 

 tennal joint; ocellars distinct, no outer vertical; an- 

 tennse reddish-brown to black, the third joint about 

 2^2 times the second, and reaching three-fourths of 

 the way to oral margin; arista long, plumose over 

 halfway; palpi brown to black; proboscis black, or- 

 dinary; bucca nearly half the eyeheight, the hairs 

 rather fine, black anteriorly, but the whitish beard of 

 the metacephalon extends well forward of the suture, 

 blending with the black; back of head with two rows 

 o'f black hairs, and more or less of a third above. 



Thorax gray poUinose, with the usual three to 

 five black stripes, the submedian gray stripes divided 

 to the suture and beyond; ps dc 4 or more, only the 

 hindmost two of any size; ant acr 0; prsc 1; stpl 3, 

 the intermediate large ; scutellum with two marginals, 

 one large subapical, one large apical. 



Abdomen gray, tessellated, with a slender 

 median black stripe; first and second segments with 

 only lateral bristles ; third wi\h a stout median pair of 

 marginals; fourth with red hind edge and marginal 



