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Lucilia sericata Meigen. Abundant. Dec. 25 to May 12 (F. M. Jones); 



July 12-29 (Kincaid); Spanish Point, July 5 (Spaeth). L. latifrons 



Schiner is a synon\Tii. 

 Lucilia caesar Linne. Recorded by Prof. Verrill. 

 Lucilia problematica sp. nov. 



Male : Front linear as in L. caesar, black, orbits whitish pollinose ; 

 face black, whitish pollinose, the oral margins and antennae reddish 

 brown, arista black. Thorax and abdomen bronze black shining, 

 with a slight whitish pollen especially on the sides and on the pleura. 

 Two ppst-acrosticals. Femora and tibiee brown and the tarsi blackish. 

 Squamas and halteres yellow, wings brownish hyaline. Length 7mm. 



Female: Similar to the male, front, as in L. caesar, one-third the 

 width of the head. 



Holotype June 30 (Kincaid); allotype March 1899 (Montgomery), 

 in the author's collection. This interesting species has been in my 

 collection for some time awaiting more material. The first specimen 

 ( 9 , antennae wanting) was collected by Mr. Thomas L. Montgomery 

 in March, 1897. A teneral specimen (cT) was taken by the late C. 

 Abbott Davis, July 11, 1903. These were submitted to the late D. 

 W. Coquillett at the time I was preparing my previous list, but he 

 declined to name them without more material. The third specimen 

 (cf ) was taken by Prof. Kincaid, June 30, 1905, and a fourth specimen 

 ( 9 teneral) by Mr. Frank M. Jones, March 1, 1909. It is close to L. 

 caesar in every respect but color; the entire absence of green or blue, 

 however, seems to preclude placing it in that species. I had hoped 

 that a larger series would show variations approaching that species, 

 but while L. caesar was mentioned by Prof. A., E. Verrill, the large 

 series of Lucilia brought from the Islands by Messrs. Montgomery, 

 Davis, Kincaid and Spaeth, contained only L. sericata. j 



Anthomyidae. 



Ophyra aenescens Wiedemann. July 6 (Kincaid) ; Deceinber 26 



(F. M. Jones). 

 Fannia pusio Wied. {F. femorata Loew) May 9 (F. M. Jones); July 



6 (Kincaid). 

 Fannia polychaeta Stein. This is based on Anthomyia lepida Meig., 



recorded by J. Matthew Jones in 1876. It is a doubtful species, 



referred with a question to this species. 

 Limnophora narona Walker. (L. cyrtoneurina Stein) collected by 



C. A. Davis, July 14. 

 Mydsea sp? One imperfect specimen, July 17 (Davis). 

 Phyllogaster cordyluroides Stein. June 30 and July 12 (Kincaid). 

 Phorbia fusciceps Zetterstedt. Common, December 26 (F. M. Jones) ; 



June 30 and July 29 (Kincaid); Agar's Island, June 18; on the 



road from Hamilton to Grasmere, June 26; Spanish Point, July 



5 (Spaeth). This species infests onions and other vegetables, 



and is undoubtedly the fly referred to by Verrill as ^^ Anthomyia 



ceparum," "onion fly." 

 Coenosia sp? July 6 (Kincaid). 



