SARCOrilAiill" I'MKS .lOUXSTON AN'I» IIKdS. 179 



11. Siirr(^i)}i(((/i( friKjijalti Tayloi'. 



S. froyyattl Taylor, Bull. Ent. Res., vii., 3, 1917, p. 265. 



S. IcnaU Parker, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., liv., 1917, p. 96. 



S. aun'froHS (iu part) of Australian authors. 



S. froijgafti Joliiiston and Tiegs, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, xxxiii., 1921, 

 p. 73. 



Glaiicosarcophaija Jniahi Towsend, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wasliington, xxx., 1917 

 p. 191 (type of genus). 



Glaucosarcophaga froggatti Johnston and Tiegs, Pioc. Roy. Soc. Queens- 

 land, xxxiii., 1921, p. 76. 



One male, Brisbane, Queensland. 



12. Sdrcophitga tJteta Johnston and Tiegs. 



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

 p. 78. 



A male and a female, paratypes, Brisbane, Queensland. 



13. Sarcophaga depressa R.D. 

 (Plate XXV., fig. 4.) 

 Myophora deprei^sa Robineau-Desvoidy, Essai Myodaires, 1830, p. 353. 

 Myophora musca R.D., I.e., 1830, p. 360. 

 Sarcophaga flavifeviorata Macquart, Dipt. Exot. Suppl. 4, 1850, p. 233. 



Sarcophaga iota Johnston and Tiegs, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, xxxiii., 

 1921, p. 79. 



The specimens in the Australian Museum comprise four males and 

 three females, captured at such widely separated localities as King 

 George's Sound (S. W. Australia), Bagdad (Tasmania), Perth (W. A.), 

 and Sydney (N.S.W.). It is quite common about Brisbane. As this is 

 one of the commonest of the smaller golden sarcophagids, it is very 

 probable that Robineau-Desvoidy had this species before him when he 

 described M. dep)ressa. The individual variations exhibited by this fly are 

 sufficient to account for his desci'ibing it under two different names. As 

 both his types were females, an examination of these, if they are still in 

 existence, would be of little value, the female of this species being 

 indistinguishable in external chai'acters from the females of certain closely 

 allied species. By adopting the above synonymy, the confusion resulting 

 from the brief, more or less, general descriptions of early workers should 

 be still further diminished. Macquart doubtless had this same species 

 before him when he described S. flavifeviorata from the east coast of 

 Australia. As all the descriptions, as far as they go, apply to S. iota, 

 recently described by us, and as this is the commonest small golden 

 species in Australia, the synonymy as given above is probably correct. 

 We give a figure of the terminal portion of the male genitalia. 



