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hodies of most of the specimens in the U. S. National Museum 
are more metallic greenish. Two specimens, marked ‘‘? types,”’ 
from the Chapada, Brazil, type series of Hough at the Field 
Museum in Chicago and two cotypes in the University of Kansas 
collection are like the series in the National Collection. 
Myiolucilia lyrcea (Walker), new combination 
Musca lyrcea Walker, List of the Specimens of Dipterous Insects 
in the Collection of the British Museum, vol. 4, p. 873, 1849. 
Type, male from Montevideo, Uruguay, in the British 
Museum. ) 
Musca verena Walker, List of the Specimens of Dipterous Insects 
in the Collection of the British Museum, vol. 4, p. 877, 1849. 
(Type, female from Venezuela, in the British Museum.) 
New synonymy. 
Musca caruca Walker, List of the Specimens of Dipterous Insects 
in the Collection of the British Museum, vol. 4, p. 877, 1849. 
(Type, female from Chile, in the British Museum.) New 
synonymy. 
Musca gamelia Walker, List of the Specimens of Dipterous 
Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, vol. 4, p. 
878, 1849. (Type, male from Montevideo, Uruguay, in the 
British Museum.) New synonymy. ; 
Somomyta callipes Bigot, Soe. Ent. de France Ann. (5)7:249, 
1877. (Type, male from Mexico, in the British Museum.) 
New synonymy. 
Male. Head width at greatest 15.8; length at antenna 6.5, and 
at vibrissa 7.1; eye height 10.4; head height 13.7; bucca orange, 
0.28 eye height, thinly golden pollinose, with abundant medium- 
length whitish-yellow to golden hair, and with some dark hair 
anteriorly and above; frontalia obliterated at middle, widening 
toward lunule, orange red; front almost obliterated, consisting 
of merely a faint line beginning 1.5 to 2.0 units below anterior 
ocellus and continuing for 2.0 units, at vertex 0.11 of head 
width, 0.16 at lunule, brown to black with golden pollinosity, and 
with some small setae in rows extending to foremost frontal 
bristles; frontal bristles about eight to nine; vertex subpollinose, 
black; ocellar bristles of moderate size, proclinate; clypeus 
golden; vibrissae separated by 2.2; haustellum with whitish 
setae; palpus 3.8, orange; antenna orange, third segment 3.8 
times as long as second; arista orange at base, black at tip, with 
dark brown plumosity; back of head black, dark brown above 
