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The last Australian Sarcophaga to be described was 

 <18) *S'. froggafti Taylor, 1917. Thanks to Mr. G. F. Hill, of 

 the Australian Tropical Institute, we have been able to give 

 an account of this fly. 



Thus, of the eighteen species recorded to date, no less than 

 eleven (including one with a preoccupied name) are still imper- 

 fectly known, many of them being quite unrecognisable from the 

 scanty descriptions. Five are fully described (both sexes) in 

 our paper, and two have been reduced to synonyms. To the 

 list we add fifteen new and one previovisly known species, 

 giving a description of both sexes in the case of eight new 

 ones, and of the male only in the remaining seven. 



We have compared our specimens with the accounts of 

 various Sarco])hagas from New Guinea, Southern Asia, the 

 East Indies, and the Pacific Islands, as given by Walker 

 (1856-1865), Macquart, Thomson, and Parker. Unfortunately 

 many of the descriptions published by Macquart and Walker 

 are so general or so scanty as ;to be of very little value for 

 comparative purposes. The following species, however, may 

 be definitely excluded from synonymy with the species referred 

 to in this paper : — S. ruficornis Fabr. (India and Philippines) ; 

 S. orienialis Parker, ^S*. crinifa Parker, S. harpax Pand. (all 

 from Philippines) ; S. j^c-rpusilla Walker (New Guinea) ; S. 

 rohusta Aldrich, S. hcemorrhoidalis Fallen, S. barbata Thomson, 

 S. paUinervis Thomson (all from Hawaii) ; and the following 

 described by Walker from the East Indies : S. aliena, 

 8. indicata, S. invaria, 8. mendax, 8. inextricata, and 8. brevis. 



Acknowledgments are gratefully made to Dr. Aldrich 

 (U.S. National Museum), Major E. Austen (British Museum), 

 Messrs. W. W. Froggatt (Government Entomologist, Sydney), 

 H. Tryon (-Government Entomologist, Brisbane), and G. F. 

 Hill (Tropical Institute, Townsville, N.Q.), as well as Dr. 

 T. L. and Miss M. J. Bancroft (Eidsvold, Q.), for assistance 

 in regard to material ; also Messrs. H. A. Longm.an, Director 

 of the Queensland Museum, and W. A. Rainbow and A. Mus- 

 grave, of the Australian Museum, Sydney, for assistance in 

 regard to literature. 



Types, both holotypes and allotypes, will be deposited in 

 the Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Paratypes will, if sufficient 

 be available, be distributed to other museums such as the Aus- 

 tralian Museum, Sydney, British Museum, and U.S. National 

 Museum. 



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