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type material of Macquart, which he generously placed at my 

 disposal. 



I was allowed to spread the genitalia of material in Mr. Collin's 

 collection, and in the numerous species in the British Museum, as 

 well as in those received from Vienna. 



Dr. Elle Franz, of the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfort on the 

 Main, kindly furnished a list of the types of Wiedemann's Sar- 

 cophagus now represented in that institution {phoenicunts, calida, 

 surinamensis) ; unfortunately only one specimen of each exists,, 

 which under the rules can not be loaned. 



I was unable to learn the location of any of Rondani's types in 

 the genus /Sarcophaga, several inquiries eliciting no response. 



In reporting these studies, it seems advisable to list all the species 

 of the early authors, although not all of them have been examined. 



In general, no attempt is here made to divide the old genus 

 Sarcophaga into smaller genera, although a few recently proposed 

 genera are mentioned, and others are referred to as groups, leaving 

 their final status for future determination. The present purpose is 

 best served by trying to make the species identifiable, without going 

 very far into the question of subdivision, which would greatly com- 

 plicate this paper. The genus in the old sense is a very recognizable 

 one, and nearly all the species here mentioned were originally re- 

 ferred to it. 



Mr. David G. Hall kindly offered to prepare pen sketches from 

 my penciled ones in my notes, and I am greatly indebted to him for 

 making as good figures as the circumstances permitted. I only regret 

 that he could not draw them from the specimens. 



Dr. Harold Morrison, in charge of taxonomic investigations for 

 the Bureau of Entomology, kindly offered the services of Mrs. 

 Eleanor Carlin, of his staff, to make drawings of genitalia in the 

 species received from Vienna too late to send to Mr. Hall. She 

 made all the figures of Plate 3. 



SPECIES OF FABRICUS 



Mvsca occidua, Entomologia Systematica, vol. 4, 1794, p. 315; Sys- 



tema Antliatorum, 1805, p. 288. — Wiedemann, Auss. Zweif., vol, 2, 



18S0,^.^G8 {jSarcophaga). 



Two females in the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen, are in accord- 

 ance with the current understanding of the species,* but are appar- 

 ently not types. The species belongs to the genus Sarcophagula 

 Van der Wulp, and has many synonyms. 

 Musca gulo, Syst. Antl., 1805, p. 283 {Miisca). 



One female, South America, said to be in the Sehestedt collection, 

 now a part of the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen. The type is 



'Aldiich, Sarcophaga and Allies, 1916, p. 40. 



