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LUCILIA. 



Robineau Desvoidy, Myodaires, 452, 1830. 

 1. Lucdlia (Compsomyia) macellaria. 



Miisca macellaria, Fabricius, Syst. Ent., 776 (for 

 the extensive bibliography and synonymy, see 

 Lynch A., An. Soc. Cient. Arg., x., 71, 233).— 

 North and South America. 



2. Lucilia ritficornis. 



? Lucilia ritficornis f Macquart, Dipt. Exot. ler Suppl., 

 198 ; Schiner, Reise der No vara. Dipt., 304; 

 Boeder, Stett. Ent. Zeit., xiii., 347; Bigot, in 

 Ramon de la Sagra. Nat. Hist., 821. — Colombia 

 (Macq.), Chile (Schiner), Cuba (Bigot), Porto 

 Rico (Roeder). 



? Lucilia cluvia, Walker, List, iv., 885. — West Indies. 

 ? Musca insularis, Walker, Dipt., Saund., 340. — West 

 Indies. 



I do not feel quite sure of the determination. 



ANTHOMYIID^. 



Ophyra. 



Robineau Desvoidy, Myodaires, 516, 1830. 



1. Ophyra senescens. (PI. XII., figs. 120, head of $ ; 



120a, wing.) 



Anthomyia senescens, Wiedemann, Auss. Zw. Ins., ii., 



435. — New Orleans, West Indies. 

 Ophyra senescens, Macquart, Dipt. Exot. ler Suppl., 



203; Roeder, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1885.— Texas 



(Macq.), Porto Rico (Roeder). 



$ . Deep shining green black, the face and legs black. Eyes 

 nearly contiguous. Front below with short bristles. Antennae 

 dark-red ; arista slender, bare. A small spot in the middle above 

 the antennae ; the face and the cheeks light, silvery pollinose ; 

 oral and cheek bristles small. Proboscis short ; palpi yellow. 

 Abdomen ovate, with rather dense, erect, black hair ; bristles at 

 the tip slender and not long. Wings lightly tinged with brown. 

 Hind tibiae simple. Length 5 mm. 



One specimen. St. Vincent. 



