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examined specimens of the latter species from British New Guinea, we 

 are suggesting the synonym}', hoping thereby to reduce the confusion 

 which the ambiguous accounts of early entomologists have produced. 



7. Sarcophaga eta Johnston and Tiegs. 



S. eta Johnston and Tiegs, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, xxxiii., 1921, 

 p. 65. 



One male, paratype, bred from decaying fisli, Brisbane, Queensland. 



8. Sarcophaga miser a Walker. 



S. misera Walker, List. Dipt. British Museum, iv., 1849, p. 829. 



S. frontalis Thomson, Eugenies Resa. Diptera., 1868, p. 535. 



S. frontalis (in part) Froggatt, Australian Insects, 1907, p. 314-5. 



S. frontalis Tryou, Dept. Agric. Qld. Ann. Rep. 1916-7 (1917), p. 53. 



S. misera Cleland, Aus. Med. Congress, 1911 (1913), pp. 548, 570. 



S. misera Johnston and Bancroft, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, xxxii., 1920, 



p. 23. 

 S. misera Johnston and Tiegs, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, xxxiii., 1921, 



p. 67. 



A male from Victoria, a female from Sydney, New South Wales. 

 The presence of fairly well-developed prescutellar acrostichal bristles 

 should have been mentioned in our earlier account. 



9. Sarcophaga misera var. dux Thomson. 



S. dux Thomson, Eugenies Resa. Dipt., 1868. 

 S. suhtuberosa Parker, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., liv., 1917, p. 89. 

 S. misera var. dux Johnston and Tiegs, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, xxxiii., 

 1921, p. 70. 



One male, Brisbane, Queensland. A species (or variety) widely 

 distributed throughout the Pacific. 



10. Sarcophaga aurifrons Macquart. 



S. aurifrons Macquart, Dipt. Exot. Supp., i., 1846, p. 191. 

 S. aurifera Brauer and Bergenstamm, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien., 1891. 

 S. aurifrons Tryon, Dept. Agric. Qld. Ann. Rep., 1916-17, p. 53. 

 S. aurifrons Froggatt, Agric. Gazette, N.S.W., xvi., 1905, p. 20. 

 S. aurifrons Froggatt, Austr. Insects, 1907, p. 315. 



S. aurifrons Froggatt, N.S.W. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. 95, 1915, p. 29. 

 S. aurifrons Johnston and Tiegs, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, xxxiii., 

 1921, p. 71. 



A male and a female from Brisbane, Queensland. 



