SAKCOPHAGA ANB ALLIES 235 



Harbor) ; Xew Jersey (Manahawkin, New Bruns- 

 wick and Westville) ; Pennsylvania (Germantown) ; 

 Ohio (Newark and Columbus) ; Indiana (LaFayette, 

 Elkliart, Michigan City and Evans^alle) ; Colorado 

 (Experiment Station 1632) ; Virginia (Virginia 

 Beach) ; Florida (^liami, Biscayne Bay, Charlotte 

 Harbor) ; Georgia (Tifton) ; and Texas (Dallas and 

 Victoria ) . 



The Michigan City specmiens were captured on 

 dead fish on the beacli of Lake Michigan. 



The female is much like that of sarracenioides 

 and utilis, but can be distinguished by the beard, as 

 described. 



Holotype and allotype. — INIale and female, in 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College; })aratypes. 

 No. 19167, U. S. N. M., and in several other collec- 

 tions. 



No. 111. Sarcophaga libera n. sp. 



Male. Like hidlata, but differing as follows: 

 Front .209 of head; sides of front and face not 

 with yellow tinge; third antennal joint a little over 

 twice the second, reaching less than three-fourths of 

 the way to the vibrissa?, which are at the oral margin ; 

 bucca about one-third the eyeheight, ^^'ith no pale 

 beard before the metacephalic suture; back of head 

 with the third row of black hairs very irregular, but 

 more developed than in huUata; forceps hardly diver- 

 gent; posterior claspers reddish; distal segment of 

 penis not blunt, but continued on in the form of two 

 pairs of processes, the dorsal yellow and slender, the 

 others black, wide apart at base and approximated 

 at tip ; these processes are about as long as the body of 

 the segment ; hind tibi« only moderately villous ; mid- 

 dle with two bristles on outer front side. 



Female. Like the male except as follows : Front 

 .274 of head; the usual orbitals and outer vertical 



