PARKER: NEW ENGLAND SARCOPHAGIDAE. 07 
I have not seen any representatives of this j^enus except from North 
America and Jamaica. Dr. Bottcher assures me that he has seen no 
representatives in the Palaearctic fauna. 
Table of Species. 
1. Posterior femur witli two complete rows of bristles 2. 
Posterior femur with one complete row of bristles, but with two, sometimes 
three intermediate rows on distal half latisterna, n. sp. 
2. Anterior acrostichals and three sternopleurals present. . .ferncUdi, n. sp. 
Anterior acrostichals absent; two sternopleurals present, .biselosa, n. sp. 
5. Boettcheria latisterna, n. sp. 
PI. .5, fig. 35; PI. 8, fig. 49. 
Type cf : Massachusetts Agricultural College. 
Paratypes (cf ): Massachusetts Agricultural College, three; U. S. 
National Museum, one (no. 18,425); American Museum of Natural 
History, one; Cornell University, one; Boston Society of Natural 
History, one; collection of C. W. Johnson, one; collection of author, 
three. 
Upper row of bristles on anterior face of third fenmr complete; 
two, sometimes three intermediate rows present on distal half, their 
bristles very long and stout; only a few bristles of lower row retained 
distally; anterior acrostichals present, long and slender; three sterno- 
pleurals. 
Length: 6 to 1-i mm., average 9 to 11 mm. 
Head. — Viewed from side parafrontals and genae with dark reflec- 
tions. Breadth of front at narrowest part two fifths to three sevenths 
eye width; cheek height varies from one fourth to less than one third 
that of eyes. Front very prominent; Snner orbits of eyes on its upper 
part converging downward; sides of frontal vitta parallel, slightly 
dra\%'n in at base, if at all. Second antennal segment blackish; third 
almost twice length of second, often broadest at tip; arista shortly 
plumose on basal half to two thirds. Back of head strongly convex, 
behind eyes with black cilia nearly down to foramen; metacephalon 
clothed with yellowish hair just beneath foramen, otherwise its vesti- 
ture black. Palpi dark. 
Chactotaxy. — Lateral verticals absent; vibrissae on a line with oral 
margin. 
Thorax. — Metanotum clothed with scattered hairs that incline 
