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still in fair condition, and proves to be the same as my Sarcophaga 

 Wiedemann ^ ; Townsend ® has proposed the new genus Paraphrls- 

 sopodia with designated type Peckia lamanensis Robineaii-Desvoidy, 

 which is again the same species (at least in Townsend's sense, but 

 the type is lost). Townsend saw the type of gido in 1928, and is in 

 accord with the indicated specific synonomy. 



Musca tessellata^ Syst. Antl., 1805, p. 285. 



Sex not mentioned, South America. Smidt and Lund collections. 



In the Copenhagen Museum I found three females standing as 

 types; as they showed no striking characters and I was not in a 

 position to compare named material with them, I gave up elucidating 

 the species. From Vienna, however, I have received a good series of 

 both sexes, which are evidently what Wiedemann had when he 

 wrote his description of the species.^ There are 22 males and 12" 

 females, seven of the latter on the same pin with a male, presumably 

 taken in copulation. For a wonder it is a nearly homogeneous series,, 

 only three belonging to other species. While there is room to doubt 

 the correctness of Wiedemann's identification, I have decided to= 

 accept it as authentic, since he saw the types. The specimens are all. 

 from the Winthem collection, and from Brazil, five collected by 

 Natterer. 



The species belongs to the Oxysarcodeoda group of Townsend, and 

 differs from australis Aldrich ^ so slightly that a figure of the genitalia 

 (fig. 22) and a few comparative notes will make it recognizable. The 

 forceps are distinctly narrower, as viewed from behind; the large 

 lateral plates of the penis are rounded anteriorly, with serrations, 

 not drawn out into a point as in australis; and the tips of the an- 

 terior claspers are not nearly so acute, being flattened dorso-ventrally 

 and rounded in that view. AuHfinis W^alker is a synonym. 



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Sarcophaga praeceps, p. 355. 



Male, Cuba. I received for study three males from the type lot; 

 the species is the same as indicated by me in Sarcophaga and Allies 

 (1916, p. 23, fig.), and is the type of Macquart's genus Phi^sopodia, 



Sarcophaga chrysostoma^ p. 356. 



I have reported on the types in Annals Entomological Society of 

 America (vol. 17, 1924, p. 210). 



^ Sarcophaga and Allies, 1916, p. 193, fig. 88. 

 Ins. Ins. Menst., vol. 3, 1915, p. 118. 

 •^ Sarcophaga, in Auss. Zweif., vol. 2, 1830, p. 363. 

 s Sarcophaga and Allies, 1916, p. 282, fig. 135. 



