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for certain identifications referred to later on. Dr. Aldrich 

 also kindly allowed us to make use of the card catalogue of those 

 recorded from Austraha, the catalogue being the work of Dr. 

 C. H. Townsend. 



The first a-utlior to deal with any Australian Sarcophagidse 

 was Robineau-Desvoidy, who in 1830 pubhshed descriptions 

 of five species from Sydney, viz., (I) S. depressa, (2) S. peregrina, 

 (o) S. siibrotunda, (4) S. raplda, and (5) S. musca, all under the 

 generic name Myophora. We have not been able to consult 

 Ms '■ Essai," but, thanks to Mr. W. A. Rainbow, Australian 

 Museum, Sydney, we have seen figures of S. rmisca pubhshed 

 by Guerin-^Ieneville, whose specimens canife from New Guinea. 

 The text relating to the work (Zoology, Voyage of the 

 ■' Coquille") was not available, but Figure 4 suggests a Sarco- 

 phaga ; the drawing of a front view of the head and face, 

 however, shows marked differences from the Sarcophaga ^ype, 

 e.g. the sketch shows the presence of a fully plumose arista, 

 prominent first antennal joint, an atypical number and arrange- 

 ment of the bristles. If the figure be incorrectly drawn, then 

 it is possible that *S'. musca may be that described later by 

 Walker as S. irrequieta, since small underfed specimens of the 

 latter commonly resemble llusca domestica at first sight in 

 regard to size and colouration. In all probabiHty the remaining 

 four, if recognisable, will be found to be common forms in 

 the vicinity of Sydney {S. misera being one for example), and 

 some of the species described in this paper may be synonyms. 



A little later Macquart (1846, 1855) described three from 

 the east coast of Australia, viz., (6) S. aurifrons, (7) S. flavi- 

 femorafa, and (8) S. ruficornis. The last-mentioned specific 

 name is not available, having been preoccupied by S. ruficornis 

 (Fabr.) from East India. No. 7 we do not laiow. .S'. aurifrons 

 is the name given in Australia to a certain type of blowfly, 

 but as a result of our observations we find that probably ten 

 or twelve Brisbane species could be included under the descrip- 

 tion. As we have not access to Macquart's type, we have 

 fixed his name on a particular sj)ecies based on specimens 

 collected in Brisbane by Mr. Froggatt many years ago and 

 forwarded to Washington D.C. for determination by Coquillet, 

 who labelled some as S. aurifrons Macq. and others as S. 

 frontalis Thoms. Through the kindness of JMr. Froggatt we 

 have been able to examine the determined specimens. 



