SAKCOPHAGA ANJ) ALLIES 77 



No. 26. Sarcophaga latisterna Park. 



Parker, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol 35. p. 67, 1914; 

 pi. 5, f. 35, and pi. 8, f. 49, male only (Boftchcria). 



]Mr. Parker has described the species so fully that 

 only the characters most essential for the recognition 

 of the species will be mentioned here. 



A large elongated black gray-tessellated species ; 

 outer vertical absent ; 3 pairs of anterior acrostichals ; 

 prescutellars quite absent or more rarely small and 

 hairlike; 3 ps dc; 3 stpl; scutellum with 3 or 4 mar- 

 ginal, the intermediate of these small; preapical and 

 apical scutellars very slender and quite small. First 

 and second abdominal segments with onlv lateral 

 bristles ; third with a median pair, erect, and couple of 

 small, appressed ones between these and the laterals ; 

 fourth with a marginal row of about 16. 



Hypoj^ygium red; first segment sometimes 

 darker basally, in profile very convex near base and 

 rather straight near posterior end, somewhat pruinose 

 on the middle part, witli a row of bristles across hind 

 margin; second segment red, globose, subshining; for- 

 ceps wude and short, black apically, the basal half or 

 more with strikingly long and dense tuft of black hair ; 

 accessory lobe slender, finger-like but bluntly pointed : 

 penis strikingly long and complicated, seemingly with 

 a reduplication of tlie distal segment. Sternites 

 markedly widened from 1 to t. 



Hind femur with one entire row of bristles on 

 outer upper side, near tip with two or more partial 

 rows below this, some of which are very long, about 

 one-third the length of the femur. 



Length. 8-13 mm. 



Twenty-five males; Mass., Conn., X. Y., Md., 

 Ind., 111., Wis. Tlie Maryland specimen is from Col- 

 lege Park, and tlie label states that tlie specimen was 

 bred from Ponfia nipac, issued Xov. 18, 1907, K. D. 

 Brown, coll. 



The ty])e locality is not mentioned by Parker; lie 

 had numerous specimens from all the New Kngland 

 States, as well as X. Y., X. .T., Pa., and ^Nlinn. 



