Sept. 21, 1914 
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Several individuals of Aphaereta sp. were reared from a few puparia 
of Sarcophaga kellyi at Wellington, Kans., as many as 8 to 12 issuing 
from each puparium, and several Eupteromalis sp. were reared from 
puparia, the larvae of which were collected at Dodge City, Kans., in 
April, 1913. About 10 to 12 adults issued on June 3 from each pupa¬ 
rium, and every effort was made to rear them on parasitized grasshoppers, 
but with negative results. 
The Perilampus, Chalcis, and Aphaereta issued during the late winter 
and early spring of 1913 from puparia in the laboratory under laboratory 
conditions, and no life-history work could be done on them. Continued 
observations on grasshoppers during the season of 1913, with special 
effort toward working out the method and time of oviposition and habits 
of these hyperparasites, were disappointing; and even a lot of sweepings 
of crops and weeds where grasshoppers and sarcophagids were very 
numerous did not reward the writer with a single specimen. 
To what extent the parasites of the sarcophagids affect the efficiency 
of the latter could not be estimated, but it is to be hoped that they 
never become more than museum rarities. 
DESCRIPTION OF SARCOPHAGA KELLYI 
By J. M. Aldrich 
Sarcophaga kellyi, n. sp. (PI. XL, fig. 1). 
Male.—F ront at narrowest about one-fifth as wide as the head (PI. XL, fig. 2)— 
average of 10 measured with micrometer and compound microscope is 0.216 mm., the 
extremes being 0.195 and 0.241 mm.—brownish at vertex, becoming silvery with a slight 
yellow cast below, the same color extending down the orbit to the lower comer of the 
eye; frontal stripe dark brown, as wide as one orbit on the upper part; a single pair of 
vertical bristles (the normal inner pair) inserted somewhat behind the vertex proper 
(PI. XL, fig. 3); ocellar bristles normal; frontals ordinary, the upper pair stout 
and recurved, the lowermost pair inserted toward the eye margin; side of face about 
half as wide as the median depression, with a few fine hairs in a row next the eye 
below; antennae black, third joint about twice the second, reaching two-thirds of the 
way to the oral margin; arista plumose for more than half its length; vibrissas slightly 
above the oral margin, the ridges above them with only a few hairs close down; beard 
whitish; palpi black; proboscis smallish, retracted. h 
Thorax (PI. XL, ng. 1) rather narrow and long, cinereous, slightly ocherous, 
dorsum with 5 ill-defined subshining black stripes, of which the median one is con¬ 
tinued narrowly on the scutellum, and the lateral are abbreviated at both ends; at 
the front margin another stripe, narrow but distinct, beginning on each side of the 
median one, but soon disappearing; four postsutural dorsocentrals, the first and second 
behind the suture smaller than the remaining two, and one or the other of them 
occasionally represented only by a large hair, but only in rare instances (in the related 
Sarcophaga cimhicis there are three postsutural dorsocentrals, but the anterior one is 
large and equally spaced with the others); a moderately large pair of prescutellars; 
acrostichals before the suture about two pairs, rather slender; scutellum with two 
large bristles on each side, a small apical cruciate pair (absent in two of about 200 
specimens examined), and a slightly larger subdiskal pair; notopleurals four, alter¬ 
nating large and small; pleura concolorous with dorsum, three stemopleurals; calypters 
waxy white, the lower edge with silky whitish hairs; halteres brown. 
Abdomen rather narrow, not much curved downward toward apex, yellowish 
cinereous pollinose, with 3 dorsal blackish ill-defined stripes, most distinct when 
viewed from behind; segments 1 to 3 with lateral macrochaetae only; segment 4 with a 
circle of about 16; hypopygium (PI. XL, fig. 4) moderately prominent, its first 
segment black in ground color, opaque, with yellowish cinereous pollen, on its apical 
margin with a row of about 8 very distinct bristles, the row slightly interrupted in the 
middle; second segment of hypopygium red, with irregular, scattered hairs. 
Forceps at base slender, wide apart, yellow, changing to black at about one-fourth 
the length; at about the middle there is a sudden expansion on the lower inner side 
(morphologically the dorsomedian), ending in a somewhat recurved point; from this 
the member tapers very irregularly to the tip. In profile the forceps have an evident 
