SUBFAMILY CALLIPHORINAE 253 
Phaenicia problematica (Johnson), new combination 
Lucilia problematica Johnson, Ent. Soc. Amer. Ann. 6(4) 448, 
1913. (Type, male from Bermuda, West Indies, No. 40793, 
U.S. National Museum.) 
A small black-bodied species with orange-colored appendages. 
Male. Head height 11.0; length at antenna 5.2 and at vibrissa 
5.8; eye height 8.2; bucea 0.29 eye height, dull mahogany brown 
with scattered black hair and thin gray pollen; head width 12.4; 
front at narrowest 0.02 of head width, 0.19 at lunule and 0.14 at 
vertex, dark brown to black, with whitish pollen and with a few 
very small black hairs outside frontal row; vertex subpollinose, 
thinly silvery; parafaciale 1.2 in width opposite lunule, dark 
brown to black, with much silvery pollen, bare; faciale orange 
to red orange, slightly convex in profile, with a row of short 
black setae which ascend slightly less than 0.30 the distance 
from the vibrissa to the antennal base; vibrissae 0.4 above the 
oral margin and set 2.8 apart; frontale dark mahogany red, al- 
most obliterated at narrowest portion of front; frontal row of 
bristles consisting of about nine bristles, those toward the nar- 
rowest part of the front hairlike, none present toward vertex; 
antenna with first and second segments orange, third segment 
3.6 times as long as second and darker orange in color; arista 
with long dark brown cilia for four-fifths its length; palpus 3.6 
in length; back of head black, with only thin silvery pollen, with 
one row of postocular cilia and with pale hair, especially on 
the metacephalon. 
Thorax black with metallic olivaceous green luster, bronzy 
reflections, and thin silvery pollen which is noticeable especially 
on pleura; humeral bristles three; propleuron with tawny hair; 
prosternum with pale hair; hindmost preacrostichal and pre- 
dorsocentral bristles placed 1.8 and 0.8, respectively, before the 
suture; lateral postscutellar plate with black setae; postacros- 
tichal bristles two; sclerites at wing-base orange except greater 
ampulla which is dark orange brown, lesser ampulla black and 
preepaulet dark brown. 
Legs orange brown; middle femur with one anterior bristle 
near middle, two anteroventral bristles, one near basal third and 
one near middle; middle tibia with one ventral bristle near mid- 
dle, one anterodorsal bristle near middle, and two posterior 
bristles, one near basal fourth and one near middle; hind tibia 
with one anteroventral bristle and two posterodorsal bristles 
Wing hyaline, yellowish, veins yellowish; basicosta and sub- 
costal sclerite bright orange, the latter with fine orange pile; 
