SUBFAMILY CALLIPHORINAE Sou 
Cynomya mortuorum (Linnaeus) 
Musca mortuorum Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, p. 595, 
1758; Fauna Suecica, Ed. 2, p. 452, 1761; Fabricius, Systema 
Entomologiae, p. 775, 1775; Fallen, Vet. Acad. Handl., p. 
247, 1816. (Type, from Sweden, in Uppsala or lost.) 
Sarcophaga mortuorum (Linnaeus) Meigen, Systematische 
Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweifliigeligen In- 
sekten, vol. 5, p. 16, 1826; Zetterstedt, Diptera Seandinaviae, 
vol. 4, p. 1303, 1845; Walker, List of the Specimens of Dip- 
terous Insects in the Collections of the British Museum, vol. 
4, p. 834, 1849. 
Calliphora mortuorum (Linnaeus) Pandellé, Rev. de Ent. 15 :212, 
1896. , 
Cynomya mortuorum (Linnaeus) Robineau-Desvoidy, Essai sur 
les Myodaires, Paris, p. 364, 1830; Histoire Naturelle des 
Diptéres des Environs de Paris, vol. 2, p. 578, 1863. 
Cynomyia mortuorum (Linnaeus) Maecquart, Soe. Sci. Lille, 
p. 40, 1834; Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Diptéres, 2 :233, 
1835; Portschinsky, Soc. Ent. Ross. Hor. 11:38, 1872, 1875; 
Osten Sacken, Berl. Ent. Ztschr. 31(1) :20, 1887; Lundbeck, 
Vid. Medd., p. 306, 1898; Villeneuve, Soc. ent. France Bul., 
p. 363, 1900; Frey, Acad. Sci. Russ. Mem. 29(10) :3-5, 19, 
1915; Cole, Calif. Acad. Sei. Proc., ser. 4, 11:172, 1921; 
Rohdendorf, Ent. Mitt. 13(6) :284, 1924; Mueller, Arch. f. 
Naturgesch., 88A (1-3) :70, 1922; Zool.-Bot. Gesell. Wien 
Verhandl. 73:70, 1923; Collin, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 
ser. 9, 14:204, 1924; Johnson, Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. Oceas. 
Papers 7(15) :217, 1925; Psyche 36(2) :140, 1929; Lundbeck, 
Diptera Danica, vol. 7, p. 161, 1927; Wainwright, London 
Ent. Soe. Trans. 76:241, 1928; Séguy, Eneyel. Ent. (A) 
9:123, 1928; Collin, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 10, 7:79, 1931. 
A large black and gray species with the abdomen shining 
blue green and the front and parafaciale brilliant golden polli- 
nose. | 
Male. Head (pl. 7, B) width 17.8, height 14.5; eye height 
9.6; length at antenna 10.2 and at vibrissa 10.7; bucca 0.57 the 
eye height, orange, black behind the suture, with scattered black 
hair of medium-length, no pale hair before the metacephalic 
suture, mostly shining, but sometimes with golden pollen; 
frontale 0.50 frontal width, yellow orange anteriorly, brown 
posteriorly; front at narrowest, 0.22 of head width, 0.29 at ver- 
tex, and 0.35 at lunule, yellow orange in ground color, with 
