SAKCOPHAGA AXD ALLIES 141 



Paratvpe. — jNIale and female, Xo. 20o23, U. S. 

 X. M. 



No. 62. Sarcophaga websteri n. sp. 



Male. Characters of excisa except as follows: 

 Front .158 of head; bucca one-fourth eyeheight; 

 about 10 hyjDopleurals ; second segment with a pah* 

 of erect median marginals (one of them absent in 

 one specimen ) . Abdomen not so changeable, and 

 with three moderately distinct black stripes; fourth 

 segment entirely black. Forceps red, notched be- 

 tween basal and free part behind, the latter part 

 rather wide in profile, straight in front and curved 

 behind, with a prominent tooth bent forward at tip, 

 on outer side with minute spines; viewed from be- 

 hind the forceps are moderately diverging and more 

 spinose; both claspers well developed and strongly 

 hooked, the anterior shorter and heavier, dark at tip; 

 penis with large red basal joint, distal one at an 

 angle, long, the basal half smooth; distinctly divided 

 just beyond middle, the apical median portion pale, 

 smooth behind, at tip notched or emarginate; anter- 

 ior to this the fleshy part of the organ has two lobes 

 on each side, one projecting forward, the other back; 

 fifth sternite yellow, V-shaped, somewhat hairy 

 along edge, with pale pubescence inside. 



Length 9 mm. 



Three males: Glencarlyn, Va., July 14; Ross- 

 lyn, Va., July 4; Kensington, ^Id., July 4, 1907, the 

 first and last collected bv Frederick Knab, of the Xa- 

 tional Museum. 



Xamed in honor of I'rancis Marion Webster, 

 whose distinguished career in economic entomology 

 came to an end a few days before these lines were 

 M'ritten, and who in December, 1913, requested the 

 author to take up the study of the Xorth American 

 Sarcophagidjc. 



Ty])e.— Xo. 20.524, U. S. X. ^NI., from Glcn- 

 carlvn, Va. 



