NEW FLIES OF THE GENUS SARCOPHAGA FROM GUAM 

 AND THE PHILIPPINES. 



R, R. Parker, 



Of the State College, Bozeman, Montana. 



This paper, containing descriptions of four new species of Sar- 

 copliaga, is based on material from the Philippine Islands and Guam 

 belonging to the United States National Museum. 



SARCOPHAGA SUBTUBEROSA, new species. 



Holotype. — Male, United States National Museum (No. 21497). 

 Bears number 1255; collector, D. T. Fulloway, Guam. 



Allotype. — Female, United States National 

 Museum (No. 21497). No record number; 

 collector, D. T. Fulloway; Guam. 



Paratypes. — United States National Mu- 

 seum, one male, four females. 



Length. — 8 to 12 mm. 



(Male) Head. — Viewed from side para- 

 frontals and genae with dark reflections, not 

 intensified on transverse impression. Breadth 

 of front at narrowest part varies from slightly 

 less to slightly greater than one-half eye 

 width; cheek height approximately one third 

 that of eye. Front prominent; frontal vitta 

 at narrowest part of front nearly or fully twice 

 as wide as each parafrontal, its sides parallel 

 or slightly converging backward. Second 

 antennal segment dark; third about twice 



length of second; arista plumose to beyond middle. Back of head 

 somewhat convex, with one row of black cilia behind eyes, other- 

 wise clothed with whitish or yellowish-white hair that completely 

 covers metacephalon and extends on to posterior part of cheek. 

 Anterior part of latter clothed with black hair. Gena with a row 

 of hairs near lower eye orbit; other hairs, if present, very minute. 

 Palpi dark. 



Ghaetotaxy. — Lateral verticals absent; vibrissae inserted just 

 above line of oral margin; each row of frontals extends below base 

 of vitta and diverges from inner edge of gena. 



Fig. 1.— SARCOPHAGA SUBTUBER- 

 OSA. a. C, ANTERIOR CLASPER3; 

 O. p., ACCESSORY PLATE; /., FOR- 

 CEPS; g. S.i, FIRST GENITAL SEG- 

 MENT; g. S.2, SECOND GENITAL 

 segment; p. C POSTERIOR 

 CLASPERS. 



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