Hagen.] 410 [January 28. 
(Wiegmann, Handb. der Zool., 1832, p. 438), records that the larva of 
S. latifrons has been cut out of abcesses.in the ears of man, in 
Berlin, Prussia, several times, though the imago is rather rare there. 
Prof. E. Grube (Wiegmann Archiv, 1853, Vol. xix, I) 1; p. 
282-85), records three cases. Two boys, four and twelve years old, 
had slept in the open field in Gorigoretzk, Russia, and felt in wakening 
up some pain in the inner angle of the eye. There followed inflam- 
mation destroying the eye, and the physician extracted twelve to 
fifteen larvae, nine lines long. Some of them transformed later to 
flies, which Prof. Grube determined to be Sarcophaga, and either 
S. latifrons or S. ruralis. Another case observed by the same phys- 
ician, Dr. Schnee, was that of a Jewess. Out of an abcess in the 
nose several larvae were extracted. Dr. C. J. Blake (Archives of 
Ophthalm. Otology 1872, vol. 2), recorded four cases of extraction 
of living larvae out of the human ear, three Sarchophaga, one 
Lucilia. Of the Sarcophaga five and four larvae were extracted, of 
Lucilia one. 
Concerning the species of the larva found in the neck of the girl, 
nothing definite can be said. According to the latest authorities, 
Baron Osten Sacken and Mr. Meade, the presence of S. carnaria in 
the United States is not yet proved. I must quote here the state- 
ment of Bouché, a first-class authority, that he never found the larva 
in rotten meat, but in rotten vegetables, and in dung — according 
to Fallén, it lives in horse dung. 
The N. American species of Sarcophaga are not yet worked out. 
Mr. Meade, the latest monographer, has examined them carefully, 
and separated twenty-four species, but not named them. ‘The section 
corresponding with S. latifrons, contains six species, but every one is 
stated to be unlike any British species. Iremark that S. latifrons 
does not occur in England, but its nearest related species, S. affinis. 
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