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Macquart (Suites 4 Buffon, ii. p. 274) united all the| Muscide with a rounded 
curvature of the fourth vein, with the exception of Paraliia (wich he added to Lucilia) 
and Mesembrina, in a single genus under the name Curto It included the genera 
Graphomyia, Dasyphora, Morellia, and Muscina, Rob.-Desv., and, in addition, Musca 
meditabunda ; for this latter the genus Myiospila, Rondani, was subsequently established. 
Schiner (Fauna Austriaca, Diptera, i.) separated Graphomyia, Dasyphora, and Myio- 
spila, but for the rest he adopted the genus Curtoneura (amended by him to Cyrtoneura). 
Nevertheless, he distinguished in it two typical forms, characterized by a different 
neuration, represented by the genera Morellia and Muscina, Rob.-Desv. This differ- 
ence, however, seems to be so evident that a similar generic separation made by 
Robineau-Desvoidy is perhaps fully justified, and the genus Cyrtoneura, Macq., which 
includes some heterogeneous forms, may thus be abandoned. 
1. Morellia callimera. 
Cyrtoneura callimera, Bigot, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. 1887, p. 615°. 
Cyrtoneurtta callimera, Gig).-Tos, Mem. R. Accad. Scienze di Torino, ser, 2, xlv. (sep.) p. 12”. 
Hab. Mexico!, Amula 6000 feet, Xucumanatlan 7000 feet, Sierra de las Aguas 
Escondidas 7000 feet, and Omilteme 8000 feet, all in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 
Several specimens of both sexes. Most of them measure 7°5 millim. in length, but 
a female from Xucumanatlan is only 5 millim.; Bigot gives 9 millim. 
2. Morellia sarcophagina, sp.n.,¢. (Tab. VII. fig. 20,3.) = Faynl hn in cm 
Grey ; abdomen posteriorly ochraceous ; four thoracic stripes, a dorsal line and various spots on the abdomen, 
antenne, palpi, and legs black. 
Length 6 millim. 
Head flattened anteriorly ; front black, linear, with weak bristles over its whole length; face and cheeks 
whitish ; vibrissee inserted at the oral margin; some short bristles above them; eyes descending nearly 
to the underside of the head, the discal facets scarcely larger than the others. Antenne black, inserted 
a little beneath the median line of the eyes; second joint prominent, with short bristles; third joint 
three times as long as the second; arista densely plumose, thickened at the base. Proboscis and palpi 
black. Thorax black, slightly metallic, grey-pollinose, and with four black stripes, the interspace 
between the two median stripes broad; the thoracic dorsum densely hairy, the dorso-central bristles 
rather inconspicuous. Scutellum black, somewhat metallic. Abdomen ovate; the first and second 
segments grey, the last two segments ochraceous; an uninterrupted black dorsal line and several 
blackish spots adjacent to it; hind-borders of the second and third segments blackish, with short bristles 
and lateral macrochete. Legs black; hind tibie on the outer side hairy and with some longer bristles ; 
foot-claws and pulvilli short. Tegule yellowish-grey. Wings greyish-hyaline, with a brownish tinge 
along the costa; small cross-vein under the end of the first vein and a little beyond the middle of the 
discal cell ; apical cross-vein straight ; posterior cross-vein slightly undulate. 
Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 
Two male specimens. 
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