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following literature is in existence but no species has 

 ever been determined. 



1882. Packard, A. S. Bot fly larvae in a turtle's neck. 



Amer, Nat., xvi, 598, figs. 

 1890. Wheeler, Wm. M. A species of bot fly, parasite 



of the box turtle. Psyche, vil. v, 403. 

 1904. Emerton, J. H. A dipterous parasite of the box 



turtle. Psyche, vol. xi, 34. 

 1912. Kepner, Wm. A. The larva of Sarcophaga, a 



parasite of Cistudo Carolina and the histology of its 



respiratory apparatus. Biological Bulletin 22, 163- 



170, 2 pis. 



No. 134. Sarcophaga galeata n. sp. 



Male. Front .180 of head (average of two, — 

 .170 and .190) ; parafrontals and parafacials golden 

 yellow pollinose, which color extends to the front part 

 of the bucca but does not include the hind margin of 

 the eye; frontal stripe narrow and sharply defined, 

 dark brown; frontal bristles about 11, moderately but 

 not abruptly divergent below, reaching to the middle 

 of the second antennal joint; ocellars present, outer 

 verticals absent; the hairs next the eye on the para- 

 facials are present but slender; antennee black, the 

 third joint nearly three times the second, reaching 

 four-fifths of the way to the vibrissa, which are at the 

 oral margin; arista plumose for about two-thirds of 

 its length; palpi and proboscis black, shining; bucca 

 one-fourth the eyeheight, with black hairs which ex- 

 tend well behind the suture ; back of head with three 

 rows of black hairs, the middle part bearing whitish 

 ones which are not very distinct below. 



Thorax gray pollinose, with three to five very 

 distinct black stripes ; ps dc two large and two small ; 

 ant acr hardly differentiated; prsc one small; stpl 

 three; scutellum with three marginals (intermediate 

 small), one small preapical and no apicals. 



Abdomen gray pollinose, tessellated, with 

 median black stripe; fourth segment red except at 

 base ; first and second segments with only lateral bris- 

 tles; third with a pair of median marginals rather 



