SARCOPHACiTD FLIES IN THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM 

 COLLECTION 



RY 



Pkofessor T. Hahvky Johnston, M.A., D.Sc, 



and 



0. W. TiKus, M.Sc, W. and E. Hall Fellow in Economic Biology, 

 Universit}', Brisbane. 



(Plate XXXV., and Figures 1-2) 



In a recent paper by ns (1921) an attempt was made to determine 

 the different species of Sarcophagid flies occurring in Southern Queens- 

 land by employing the characters of the copulatory organs in the male, 

 a method first used by Bottcher for European species, and followed 

 successfully by Parker and hj Aldrich in dealing with North American 

 forms. The present paper is a continuation of the work, some new 

 Australian forms being described, while additional information is given 

 regarding two known Hawaiian flies, and an account of a new Sarcophagid 

 from New Zealand is included. 



, An examination of the specimens in the Australian Museum has 

 enabled us to record a considerable extension of the known range of 

 several species. The collection now includes, as far as we are awai^e, 

 representatives of all adequately described Australian species except the 

 following: — SioropJiaga delta J. and T., S. hancrofti J. and T., S. omega 

 J. and T., as well as the following insufliciently described forms which we 

 have not as yet been able to recognise: — S. proet^a^rnt; Walker, Sarcophagula 

 pallichrus Thomson, S. pachytili Skuse and S. oedipoda Olliff. 



Sarcopliaga pr(pdatri X was named from a female specimen fly from Port 

 Essington, Northern Territory. Sarco^^hagula ^jMichrus was described by 

 Thomson as a Sarcophaga, his account being based on a female specimen 

 collected in Sydney by the "Eugenie" expedition. Van der Wulp 

 transferred it provisionally to the genus under which it is here listed. 



Sarco2)liaga jjachyfili, a parasite of Australian grasshoppers, was des- 

 cribed by Skuse as a Masirera, butCoquillet regarded it as a !Sarco2i]iagaar\d 

 referred to it as such in a papei^^ dealing with two American grasshopper 

 parasites, S. opifera and S. davidsovi. S. optifera was made the type of a 

 new genus Oifsopihyto by Townsend,^ but Aldrich in his monograph of the 

 North American Sarcophagidte does not recognise the genus. Skuse's 

 figure suggests a Tachiuid. 



Sarcopyhaga cedipoda is a novien nitdvm, the mere name Tachina cedipoda 

 liaving been used by Olliff for a fly bred from N. S. Wales grasshoppers. 

 Mr. Froggatt^ in his work on Australian insects stated that Coquillet 



1 Coquillet— U. S. Dept. Agric, Insect Life, v., 1. 1892, p. 22. 

 - Townsend — Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xxviii., 1915, p. 23. 

 ■i Froggatt — Australian Insects, 1907, p. 315. 



