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of types in our collection, I found the material, a male and female, 

 upon which Townsend based his description. A careful comparison 

 with literature at hand, made by Doctor Williston, shows the three 

 specimens to be without doubt identical. It is interesting to note, as 

 showing the range of adapt ibility of this species, that the types were 

 bred from cocoons of Limbex americana. 



h 

 pupa case by its side. hunteri Hough. Male. 



Here follows Doctor Hough's description : 



Sarcopfiaga ( Tephromyia] hunterinov. sp. Three males and two 

 females, bred from Melanoplus differential's by Mr. S. J. Hunter, 

 in whose honor I have named it. Habitat, Kansas. 



Length, five and one-half to seven millimeters. Color, gray ; the 

 male rather brownish, the female whitish. Abdomen without the 

 usual variable spots of a Sarcophaga, but with three black stripes 

 a median, and on each side a lateral. In the female the lateral stripes 

 are quite faint, and can only be seen well with a favorable incidence 

 of light. Anal segments gray, retracted within the fourth segment in 

 the males. Palpi yellow to yellowish brown. Antennae brown, with 

 the apex of the second joint and the base of the third yellow to a 

 varying extent. Squamulse white. Wings grayish hyaline; first 

 longitudinal vein not spinose ; third spinose for two-thirds to three- 

 fourths of the distance to the small cross-vein. Legs black ; in the 

 male more or less brownish gray pollinose; in the female whitish 

 gray pollinose. Hind tibia? of male not bearded. 



Head. Front of male at narrowest point one-sixth the width of 

 the head. From this point, which is about at the junction of the 

 dorsal and middle thirds, the front widens both dorsad and ventrad. 

 Front of female of uniform width, six-twentieths the width of the 

 head. The exact measurements are: Male, front 0.4 mm., head 2.5 

 mm. ; female, front 0.6 mm., head 2 mm. 



