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being the same species ; but the description (chest black etc.) 

 disagrees in some particulars. — Walker has xanthogasler from 

 the Key Islands (1. c. Ill, 130). 



Cosmina prolata Walk. (Idia) J. Pr. Lin. Soc. IV, 133 ! (Ce- 

 lebes). 



One d^, one 9; Kandari, Celebes, April 1874 {Beccavi). 

 The description agrees well. 



Calliphora bivittata {Lucilia) Dolesch. 3"*^ Bijdr. 39 (111) 62 

 (Amboina). 

 Two spec, 0(^9; Amboina, Dec. 1874 {Beccavi). 

 The description agrees perfectly. 



Calliphora sp. Dorei Hum, New Guinea, Febr. 1875 {Beccavi); 

 one (/". 



Resembles C. papita Guérin , Voy. de la Coquille , p. 297, 

 very much, but the latter has the base of the abdomen yellow^ 

 Musca calliphoroides Walk., J. Pr. Lin. Soc. V, 245 (N. Guinea) 

 is perhaps the same as papua and comes also very near my 

 species , but the type , which I saw ^ does not have the black 

 stripe running from the humerus , over the root of the wings 

 to the scutellum, which my specimens show. 



• Calliphora sp. Dorei Hum, N. Guinea {Beccavi) ; one 9 • Very 

 like the preceding, only the legs black. 



Ochromyia ferruginea Dol. 2"" Bijdr. 38, Tab. X, f. 3! (Am- 

 boina). 



Syn. Ochromyia promittens Walk. J. Pr. Lin. Soc. IV, 134 (Celeljes) ! 



Eleven «Z' 9 Ternate 1875; Kandari, Celebes, 1874; Amboina; 

 Ramoi, N. Guinea {Beccavi). 



The extent of tlie metallic color at the tip of the abdomen 

 is variable ; sometimes there is none at all. Phumosia {Ochvo- 

 myia) pallidula R. Desv. My od. 427 (Australia) may be the 



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