314 Tuer BLOWFLIES of NortH AMERICA 
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11:172, 1921; Mueller, Arch. f. Naturgesch., 88A, Heft 
1-3 :64, 1922; Walton, No. Amer. Fauna 46(2) :228, 1923; 
Shannon, Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus 11:109, 1923; Lund- 
beck, Diptera Danica, vol. 7, p. 151, 1927; Swezey and 
Bryan, Hawaii. Ent. Soc. Proc. 6:415, 1926; Senior- White, 
Indian Mus. Ree. 28:129, 1926; Kramer, Konowia 7:63, 
1928; Wainwright, London Ent. Soe. Trans. 80:237, 1928; 
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1940. 
Calliphora erythrocephala Hutton (nee Meigen), New Zealand 
Inst. Trans. 33:64, 1900. 
Calliphora rubrifrons Townsend, Smithsn. Mise. Collect. 51:116, 
1908. (Type, male from Stickeen River, British Columbia, 
no. 10884, U. S. Natl. Mus.) 
A large blue and black species with a tawny red beard. 
Male. Head (pl. 5, D) width 17.5; height 14.4; length at 
antenna 8.2 and at vibrissa 8.4; bucca 0.47 of eye height, black, 
with black and dull red-orange or tawny hairs before the meta- 
cephalic suture, and with thin silvery pollen; eye height 9.4; 
epistoma slightly protuberant, one-half as long as width and 
warped forward from clypeal plane at a 60-degree angle; 
frontale 0.5 width of front, reddish anteriorly, black posteriorly; 
front black, thinly silvery, at narrowest 0.5 head width, 0.14 at 
vertex and 0.29 at lunule, with considerable short black hair 
outside of frontal row which extends to upper third or more of 
parafaciale; frontal row consisting of about eight or nine bris- 
tles, the rows extending anteriorly to the antennal bases and 
diverging as they follow the margins of the frontale; vertex 
shining black; elypeus brownish black; facial carina short and 
narrow, separating the antennal bases by a very narrow margin; 
parafaciale one-half as wide as clypeus at middle, 1.8 in width 
opposite lunule, black, with thin silvery pollen; facialia orange 
red, with several rows of short black setae almost one-half the 
distance to the antennal base; vibrissae above oral margin by 
0.75, and separated by 3.2; palpus orange yellow, 5.0 in length; 
antennal segments dark brown to black, apex of second segment 
