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;SARCOPHAGA FHOUGATTI, sp. n. -A NEW SHEEP-AIAGCiOT FLY. 



By Frank H. Taylor, F.E.S., 



The Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine. 



Some two years ago Mr. E. V. Hines, of Wiiiton, Queensland, sent me some fly- 

 magiiiots which were attacking the sheep on his station. On breeding them out it was 

 seen that they were referable to two different genera— P//cno.s-o?/w and Sarcophaga. 



Specimens were later submitted to Mr. E. E. Austen, of the British Museum 

 (Nat. Hist.), who informed me that they were Pycnosoma rufifacies (Macq.) and a 

 Sarcophaga which was probably a new species. 



I take this opportunity of extending my cordial thanks to Mr. Austen for his kindly 

 assistance. 



Sarcophaga froggatti, sp. nov. 



Length, cD ^-'^, ? "-8 ; width of head, c^ 2-5-2-75, O 2-3 ; length of wing, ^^ 

 6-7, o .5 -5-6 -25 mm. 



A small species, with bright creamy-yellow front and face ; thorax grey, with three 

 black stripes ; abdomen silvery grey, with black irregular blotches ; legs black, 

 femora with grey tomentum. 



(^. Head : front with a dark chocolate stripe, with numerous stout black hairs on 

 its sides bordered with bright creamy-yellow ; cheeks bright creamy-yellow ; beard 

 pale creamy ; antennae and palpi black ; proboscis dark chocolate ; eyes black 

 with a coppery tinge. Thorax gvey, pale creamy on the sides, pubescence black, 

 erect, short, with three black stripes, the median one extending to the apex of the 

 scutellum, the lateral ones not quite reaching the base of the scutellum ; there are 

 three black prescutellar bristles on each side ; pleurae gre}' ; scutellum grey, with 

 six black posterior bristles, the two median ones short. Abdornen grey, with numerous 

 black, irregular blotches, densely clothed with black depressed pubescence ; apex 

 with eight stout, fairly long spines ; venter grey, with pale pubescence, except at 

 the apex where it is black. Legs black, femora grey, the front pair stouter than the 

 others. Wings hyaline, veins black, squamae creamy. 



$. Similar to the ^, but the abdomen shorter, broader and more globose. 



Queensland : Wiuton {E. V. Hines). 



Described from specimens bred from larvae. In general appearance it is very 

 similar to S. ntisera, Walker, but much smaller and less stout in build. 



Type-specimens in the Institute collection. 



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