160 THE BLOWFLIES oF NortH AMERICA 
Patton and Cushing, Ann. Trop. Med. and Parasitol. 
28(3) :305-314, 1934; Townsend, Manual of Myiology, vol. 2, 
p. 171, 1935; ibid., vol. 5, p. 168, 19387. Genotype, Musca 
regina Meigen by designation of Robineau-Desvoidy. 
Calliphora (Phormia) Pandellé, Rev. de Ent. 15:2138, 1896 (in 
part). 
Euphormia Townsend, U. S. Natl. Mus. Proce. 56(2301) :542, 
1919; Rohdendorf, Ent. Mitt. 13 :282, 1924. (Isogenotypic 
with Phormia.) 
Male and female. Head (pl. 3, A and B) with length of 
antenna and at vibrissa nearly equal; bucca almost one-third eye 
height; parafaciale narrowed above and hirsute; faciale bristled 
about half the distance to antennal base with three or four rows. 
of short setae; front of male narrow and widening anteriorly, 
with parallel margins in female; outer vertical and frontoorbital 
bristles absent in male; palpus clavate; arista with long plumo- 
sity above and below for nearly three-fourths its length; back 
of head coneave above in profile, evenly rounded below; intra- 
postocular cilia absent above, a few laterally and below. 
Thorax with dise of mesonotum convex; humeral bristles five; 
propleuron strongly pilose in center; propleural bristles three or 
four; preintraalar bristles two, the presutural present; preacros- 
tichal bristles three or four; posthumeral bristles usually one 
(sometimes two); postintraalar bristles two; preintrapostalar 
bristle absent; notopleural bristles two large, one medium, 
(rarely a still smaller fourth) ; sternopleural bristles two or three 
(usually three); prosternum laterally setose; preparapteron and 
greater ampulla with fine, short, decumbent pubescence; post- 
acrostichal bristles two; postdorsocentral bristles four or five; 
mesothoracic spiracle elongate-oval; metathoracie spiracle tri- 
angularly ovate, the anterior edge with long hairs; scutellum 
with one or two (usually two) discal bristles, three to five lateral 
bristles, only the basal and angular ones strong, apical bristles 
absent, and under surface pilose in center. 
Legs with fore femur without anteroventral row of bristles; 
tarsi as long as tibiae; claws and pulvilli as long as last tarsal 
segment. 
Wing with subcostal sclerite bare; remigium below at base with 
some long ciliae; only third vein setulose; fourth vein bent 
toward wing apex at 85-degree angle; apical cell widely open; 
anterior cross vein beyond middle of second section of fourth 
vein in proportion of 5.0:4.5; posterior cross vein oblique and 
not strongly arcuate; last section of fifth vein about one-fifth as 
long as preceding section; upper squamal lobe bare, rounded; 
