SUBFAMILY CALLIPHORINAE | 259 
Wing hyaline, brownish anteriorly toward base; basicosta 
orange brown; subcostal sclerite yellow to yellow orange with 
fine soft orange pile; costal sections 2 to 6 in the proportion 
46:38: 80:34:10; third vein setulose from one-third to one-half 
the distance to the cross vein; mouth of apical cell more widely 
open than normal; apical cross vein very slightly curved; upper 
squamal lobe hyaline, brownish apically, rim brown; lower 
squamal lobe white basally, brown apically. 
Abdomen colored like thorax, basally with whitish pollen in 
eertain lights; first segment black; second segment purple on 
posterior third and with a marginal row of bristles; third and 
fourth segments shining, mostly purplish, each with a marginal 
row of strong erect bristles; basal sternites with considerable 
short pale hair. 
Genital segments brown to brownish black, with black hair. 
Anatomical features (pl. 25, E) as illustrated. 
Female. Head height 11.3; eye height 8.7; bucca 0.25 eye 
height; length at antenna 5.6 and at vibrissa 6.0; head height 
13.7; front at narrowest (slightly above lunule) 0.26 of head 
width, 0.27 at vertex and at lunule; palpus 4.0 in length; third 
antennal segment 3.9 times as long as second; frontale orange 
brown at lunule, black posteriorly, twice as wide as parafrontale 
at ocellar triangle but only slightly wider at lunule; postvertical 
and postocellar bristles black; parafrontale with silvery pollen 
over dark brown ground; parafaciale opposite lunule 1.3 in width 
and slightly wider below; with silvery pollen over orange to 
orange-brown ground; vibrissae set 2.8 apart. Wing with basi- 
costa more orange in color than in male; costal sections 2 to 6 
in the proportion 70: 46:95:43:12; upper and lower squamal 
lobes whitish basally, orange to brownish apically. 
Length. 6.5-8.0 mm. 
Distribution. Neotropical: West Indies. 
Biology, habits, and immature stages. Unknown. Although 
many of the islands of the West Indies were visited and con- 
siderable collecting was done on some of them, this species was 
never encountered. It may be distinctly seasonal, or very local 
in distribution. 
Phaenicia sericata (Meigen) 
Musca sericata Meigen, Systematische Beschreibung der bekann- 
ten europdischen zweifligeligen Insekten, vol. 5, p. 53, 1826. 
(Type, from Germany, apparently lost; but may be in 
either Paris or Halle.) 
