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teron with fine pile; tympanic pit setose; greater ampulla 
pubescent; scutellar bridge setose; squamopleuron pilose; post- 
supraalar bristles three; postintraalar bristles two; intrapostalar 
bristle minute but rarely absent; mesothoracic bristle strong, 
mesothoracie and metathoracic spiracles not enlarged. 
Wing (pl.9,K) without costal spine; subcostal sclerite without 
setae. ; 
Abdomen without discal or median marginal bristles on inter- 
mediate segments; second segment with marginal row of re- 
cumbent bristles; third and fourth segments each with a more. 
erect and stronger marginal row of bristles. 
The genus Phaemcia differs most obviously from Lucila in 
the character of the ocellar triangle and in the subcostal sclerite. 
Phaenicia caeruleiviridis (Macquart), new combination 
Lucila caerulewiridis Macquart, Diptéres exotiques, sup. 5, p. 
133, 1855; Brauer, Akad. der Wiss. Wien, Math.-Nat. K1]. 
Sitzber. (1) 108:522, 1899; Aubertin, Linn. Soe. London 
Jour., Zool. 38:421, 1933. (Type, female from Baltimore, 
Md., in the Bigot collection, British Museum. ) 
Lucilia australis Townsend, Smithsn. Mise. Collect. 51:122, 1908; 
Tothill, Ent. Soc. Amer. Ann. 6:254, 1913; Shannon, In- 
secutor Inscitiae Menstruus 12:79, 1924; Curran, Amer. 
Mus. Nat. Hist., Bull. 61:89, 19380. (Type, female, from 
Tennessee, No. 10894, U. S. National Museum.) 
Lucilia oculata Townsend, Smithsn. Mise. Collect. 51:123, 1908; 
Tothill, Ent. Soe. Amer. Ann. 6:255, 1913. (Type, female, 
from Kentucky, No. 10896, U. S. National Museum.) 
A brilliant blue-green species with the third and fourth ab- 
dominal segments highly polished. | 
Male. Head width 13.0; length at antenna and at vibrissa 5.6; 
eye height 8.7; head height 11.1; epistoma shorter and wider 
than in sericata; metacephalon hardly apparent in profile; bueca 
0.25 of eye height, deep mahogany to black in color, with thin 
dull gray pollen, and with black setae; frontale very narrow for 
nearly 3.0 starting about 1.0 anterior to foremost ocellus, reddish 
brown and almost 0.35 of width of front at lunule; front at 
narrowest (2.0 below foremost ocellus) 0.03 of head width, 0.14 
at vertex and 0.18 at lunule, with dull silvery pollen, bare except. 
for a single row of minute dark setae just outside frontal row; 
frontal row consisting of eight or nine bristles, those posteriorly 
at narrowest part of front very weak, the rows extending an- 
teriorly to lunule and diverging as they follow the margins of 
