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ff. Body black or sordidly metallic greenish gray, usually yellow pol- 

 linose or variegate; genae at most hairy above. JV. stygia. 



Eastern Hemisphere Neopollenia Br. 



dd. Vibrissal angle situated nearly on a level of the oral margin. 

 e. Species wholly blackish, bluish, or greenish metallic in color. 



f. First section of R4+5 with at most three or four small bristles at 

 the immediate base, 

 g. The bend of R4+B a gentle curve; costal spine present; cell Rs 

 closed, ending before the apex of the wing. 5. cuprina. 



Java Synamphoneura Bigot 



gg. Bend of R4+6 angular; or the insect differs in other characters; 

 dorsal surface of the squamula thoracalis hairy (except in 

 Melinda); arista plumose only on the basal two-thirds 

 (except usually in Calliphora and Eucalliphora) . 



IG8. Head of hom-fly (Lyperosia irritans) ; (o) female; (&) male; (c) lateral aspect of female. 



h. Arista plumose only on the basal two-thirds. 



i. Base of the antennse ventrad of the middle of the eye; eyes 



of the male nearly contiguous; genae hairy; second 



abdominal segment with median marginal macrochaetse; 



two, rarely three, postsutural intraalar macrochaetse. 



j. Squamula thoracalis dorsally with long black hairs; male 



hypopgium two-segmented, large, projecting; claws 



and puUvilli of the male elongate; three strong stemo- 



pleural macrochaetse; genae at least half the width of the 



eye; buccae (cheeks) half the height of the eyes; ovivi- 



parous. 0. sepukralis. Europe Onesia R. D. 



jj. Dorsal surface of the squamula thoracalis bare; male 

 hypopygium small, scarcely projecting below; claws 

 and pulvilh not elongate; two stout sternopleural 

 macrochaetas, sometimes with a delicate one below the 

 anterior; genae nearly linear in the male; buccae about 

 a third of the eye height; oviparous. M. ccerulea. 

 Europe Melinda. R. D. 



