SARCOPHAGA CHLOROGASTER. 87 



A well preserved male specimen and another of which 

 the abdomen is lost , both from Chili ( Dohrn). 



19. Phrissopoda splendens , Macq. 



Macq. Dipt. ex. II. 3. 96. 1 ; pi. 11 , t. 3. — Blanch, 

 in Gay, Hist. fis. y pol. de Chile, VIL 427. 1; pi. 5, f. 3. 



A cf from Chili (Dohrn t. 



Neither Macquart's figure nor that of Blanchard gives 

 a clear idea of this insect. In the latter the whole body 

 is much too broad and the abdomen at the base is incor- 

 rectly represented broader than the thorax; the legs on the 

 contrary are too thin and the hind tibiae not curved ; fi- 

 nally the apical cell is erroneously represented as closed 

 almost at the tip of the wing. The figure of Macquart is 

 still more defective ; it is quite unnaturally coloured ; the 

 form is also too broad , and in the separate figure of the 

 head the arista is represented as plumose down to the end. 

 It seems as if Macquart, when making the drawing, did 

 not look at the insect , but merely kept in mind the cha- 

 racters , which he had formerly attributed to the genus , 

 for he has indicated Phrissopoda as principally differing 

 from Sarcophaga by a broader body and the plumosity of 

 the entire "arista. I do not know in how far this may be 

 true for Phr. praeceps Wied. , which he considers as the 

 type of the genus (Suit, a Buff. Dipt. II. p. 222); but cer- 

 tainly Phr. splendens is not broader than most other Sar- 

 cophaginae , and its arista is naked at the end. In almost 

 all respects it shows a remarkable resemblance with the 

 genus Cynomyia , of which it is only distinct by the more 

 hairy legs, the incrassated femora and the curved hind 

 tibiae. The white dorsal stripes of the thorax are not 

 continued behind the suture. 



20. Sarcophaga chlorogaster, Wied. 



Sarcophaga chlorogaster , Wied. Auss. Zweifl. II. 359. 



Notes from the Leyden IVIuseuni, Vol. IV. 



