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Townsend’s conclusions differ materially from the above. He 
considers the Brauer and Bergenstamm generic description to 
refer to a specific female in the Schiner collection, which was 
misidentified as Calliphora fulvipes but which belongs in the 
genus Myrolucilia. 
Paralucilia wheeleri (Hough), new combination 
Chrysomyia wheelerti Hough, Zool. Bull. 2 (6) :284, 1899; Town- 
send, Inseeutor Inscitiae Menstruus 6 (7-9) 154, 1918. 
(Type, male from Monterey, Calif., No. 53120, U. S. Na- 
tional Museum). 
Paralucilia affinis Shannon (nee Robineau-Desvoidy) (in part), 
Wash. Ent. Soe. Proe. 28 (6) :127, 1926. 
Somomyia callipes Aubertin and Buxton (nee Bigot), (in part), 
Ann. Trop. Med. and Parasitol. 28 (3) :246, 1934. 
This North American species has long been confused with ful- 
vtpes. .It may be easily separated from that species, however, 
by its dark squamal lobes and its considerably larger size; it is 
the largest of the North American chrysomyine flies. 
A large blue-green-bodied, red-legged species with the general 
aspect of Callitroga americana, but the palpi elongate and the 
squamae dark brown. 
- Male. Head width 16.9; length at antenna 7.7, at vibrissa 
8.6, and at oral margin 8.8; eye height 10.1; head height 14.2; 
bueea 0.36 eye height, orange, rather shining or with thin 
golden pollen, and with abundant yellow hair; frontale orange 
red, nearly obsolete for 2.0 below foremost ocellus but gradually 
widening anteriorly; front at narrowest 0.02 of head width, 0.13 
at vertex and 0.23 at lunule, black, with thick silvery gray pol- 
len; frontal rows of bristles nearly vestigial posteriorly, but ex- 
tending anteriorly almost to middle of the second antennal seg- 
ment, diverging with the margins of the frontale, and each row 
consisting of 10 or 11 bristles; vertex subpollinose, black, with 
considerable erect black hair; ocellar bristles of medium size; 
elypeus golden; parafaciale black above, orange below, with 
silvery pollen along eyes; vibrissae above oral margin by 1.2 
and separated by 2.2; palpus orange, 2.8 to 4.6 in length; anten- 
na with third segment 4.1 times as long as second, orange red to 
brown; arista orange in middle, black at base and tip, back of 
head black above, orange below, and with abundant yellowish 
hairs which are longer on metacephalon. 
Thorax bluish green to black with metallic green luster, and 
with three black longitudinal stripes which do not extend upon 
