162 THE BLowr ies or NortH AMERICA 
Lucilia nigrina Bigot, Ent. Soc. de France Ann. (5)5:247, 1877; 
Brauer, Akad. der Wiss. Wien, Math.-Nat. Kl. Sitzber. 
(1) 108 523, 1899 (Calliphora) ; Aubertin, Linn. Soe. London 
Jour., Zool. 38:429, 1933. Type, from Illinois, in the British 
Museum. ) 
Somomyia rupicola Bigot, Soc. Zool. de France Bull. 12:603, 
1887; Soe. Ent. de France Ann. 7:clxxx, 1887; Aubertin, 
Linn, Soe. London Jour., Zool. 38:431, 1933. (Type, male 
and female from Rocky Mountains, in the Bigot Collection, 
Newmarket, England.) 
Somomyia rufigena Bigot, Ent. Soc. de France Bull. 7:clxxxi, 
1887; Soe. Zool. de France Bull. 12:598, 1887; Hough, Zool. 
Bull. 2:288, 1899; Brauer, Akad. der Wiss. Wien, Math.-Nat. 
Kl. Sitzber. (1)108:521, 1899. (Type, male from Rocky 
Mountains, in the Bigot Collection, Newmarket, England.) 
Lucilia infuscata Townsend, (in part), Smithsn. Mise. Collect. 
51 :123, 1908. 
Phormia regina (Meigen). Robineau-Desvoidy, Essai sur les 
Myodaires, Paris, p. 466, 1830; Histoire Naturelle des 
Diptéres des Environs de Paris, vol. 2, p. 847, 1863; Hough, 
Zool. Bull. 2(6) :288, 1899; Townsend, U. S. Natl. Mus. Proe. 
56(2801) :542, 1919 (Huphormia); Engel, Ztschr. f. Wiss. 
Insektenbiol. 15(10-12) :257, 1920; Mueller, Arch. f. Natur- 
gesch. 88A (1-3) :69, 1922; Shannon, Wash. Ent. Soe. Proe. 
28(6) :128, 1926; Séguy, Encyecl. Ent. (A) 9:169, 1928; 
Wainwright, Roy. Ent. Soc., London, Trans. 76:237, 1928; 
Séeuy, Eneyel. Ent. (BII.) Dipt. 5:78, 1929; Patton and 
Cushing, Ann. Trop. Med. and Parasitol. 28(3) :307, 1934; 
Townsend, Manual of Myiology, vol. 2, p. 171, 1935; ibid., 
vol. 5, p. 168, 1937. 
A slender, olivaceous or lustrous green and black species, the 
anterior spiracle with orange hair. © 
Male. Head (pl. 38, A and B) length at antenna 5.5, and at 
vibrissa 5.6; eye height 8.7; head height 11.5; bucea 0.30 of eye 
height, with abundant black hair; frontale 0.5 frontal width; 
front at narrowest 0.01 head width, 0.17 at vertex and 0.21 at 
lunule; with gray pollen, with some scattered hairs outside 
frontal bristles extending to about the middle of the parafaciale; 
frontal rows of bristles extending anteriorly to about the base 
of the second antennal segment, and but moderately divergent, 
each row consisting of about 14 bristles which are short and 
hairlike posteriorly; inner vertical bristles long, thin, decussate; 
ocellar triangle with numerous long erect black hairs posteriorly; 
