SARCOPHAGA AND ALLIES 277 



in an inverted V shape, with a strong row of bristles 

 each side of the upper part. 



Length 11 to 14 mm. 



Twelve males, four females. Five males and 

 one female are from Logansport and La Fayette, 

 Ind. (Aldrich) ; two males, Germantown and Wer- 

 nersville, Pa. (Harbeck) ; one male Agricultural 

 College, Mich.; one male Kushla, Ala. (Sturtevant) ; 

 two males and one female, Tifton, Ga. (Hough col- 

 lection) ; one female Brookings, S. D. (Hough col- 

 lection) ; one female Pullman, 111.; one male Belts- 

 ville, Md., reared by W. .R. Walton from a dead 

 specimen of Geotrupes splendidus. 



Two males and two females of the typical mate- 

 rial have already been deposited in the National 

 Museum and are not here included. Some specimens 

 ill the typical lot have been ascertained to belong to 

 bishoppi (q. v.) and are not included; the difference 

 is most readily seen in the distinctly yellow palpi of 

 the latter species. 



Other females are no doubt at hand, but it is dif- 

 ficult to separate them from those of sarracenioides, 

 bred females of which seem to have every character 

 of those of utilis; impar is also very much the same 

 in the female. 



Type. — Male, in U. S. N. M., from Logansport, 

 Ind. 



Note. — A male received later was reared by F. 

 M. Jones from a larva in the cup of Sarracenia at 

 Theodore, Ala.; in common with Mr. Sturtevant's 

 male from Kushla, Ala., it shows a varietal difference 

 ill having the palpi yellowish at tip and the forceps in 

 profile with a deep, rounded notch behind. If further 

 collection shall show these differences constantly asso- 

 ciated with the habit of breeding in Sarracenia cups, 

 as seems probable, this form will be well worthy of a 

 varietal name. 



