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or flesh-fly, by R. H. Meade in the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 

 Vol. XII, p. 216. (February May 1876); also Rondani, tiarcophayae 

 italicae. 



Mr. Meade had the kindness to examine a collection of Sarco- 

 phagae from North America, (belonging to the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology) for the purpose of comparing them to the european species. 

 He arranged the collection according to the plan, adopted in his mono- 

 graph and made out 24 distinct species of the restricted genus Sarco- 

 pliiif/fi. (with black palpi) and four species belonging to the genera 

 Peckia Desv. iPhrissopoda Macq.), Cynomyia Desv. and TJicria Desv. 

 He adds: ! am doubtful whether any of the species is absolutely 

 identical with a european species, unless it be with Sarcophaga similis, 

 which closely resembles S. carnaria. There is no specimen in your 

 collection, however, exactly like the true S. carnaria, so common in 

 Europe. - - There are some striking points of difference between the 

 Sarcophagae of America and Europe generally, the chief of which is 

 that in the former, the species with one or both anal segments red or 

 yellow, largely predominate, while among the latter, those with the anal 

 segments black or gray, are much more numerous than those with 

 the red." 



The specimens alluded to as resembling S. similis Meade, were 

 collected in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado and on the northern shore 

 of Lake Superior. 



273 a. Idia. Compare Loew, Die europaischen Arten der Gattung 

 Idia (Stett. Entom. Z. 1844, p. 1525). 



274. Calliphora mortissqua. Kirby says: ,,this seems to be the 

 american representative of ]\lusca romitoria" and states the differences. 

 However, the cheeks being described as red, he must mean either 

 M. erythrocephala or its representative. 



275. Calliphora otscoena. Eschscholz says : n exceedingly like Musca 

 carniwra." M. carniwra Fabr. = Calliphora romitoria. 



276. Calliphora stygia. Schiner, Novara, p. 309, observes and 

 probably with good reason, that Fabricius meant Neic-Zealmtd and not 

 Newfoundland. Schiner had a number of specimens from Sydney, agreeing 

 exactly with Fabricius's and Wiedemann's descriptions. 



277. On the distribution of Anthomyiidae in genera, compare: 

 Rondani, Dipterologiae Italicae Prodromus, Vol. VI, Parma 1877. 

 R. H. Meade, On the arrangement of the British Anthomyidae 



(Entomologists Monthly Magazine, February, March Ib75), where 

 a useful analytical table of the genera is given. 

 Loew, Die deutschen Arten d. Gatt. Amelia R. Desv. (Entomo- 

 logische Miscellen, herausgegeben vom Schles. Entom. Ver. 1874. 

 41 pages.) 



Compare also Haliday's note, in Westwood's Synopsis, p. 143. 

 R. H. Meade Esq. in Bradford, Yorkshire England, has had the 

 kindness to examine a collection of North American Anthomyiae, sent 

 to him by me. The result of this examination is embodied in an article: 

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