Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected at Singapore and MalaccaWallace, Alfred Russel
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Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected at Singapore and Malacca
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Diptera -- Malacca; Diptera -- Singapore
_Female._ Cinereous, rather short and broad. Head hoary, silvery-white
above and in front; frontalia deep black, slightly widening from the
vertex to the antennæ; facialia without bristles; epistoma hardly
prominent. Antennæ extending to about three-quarters of the length
of the face; 3rd joint linear, slender, rounded at the tip, about
twice the length of the 2nd; arista stout for about half its length,
very much longer than the 3rd joint. Thorax with four slender
interrupted black stripes; scutellum with a hoary border. Abdomen
black, obconical, hardly longer than the thorax; a broad hoary band
on the fore border of each segment. Wings slightly greyish; veins
black; præbrachial vein forming an almost right and rather
well-defined angle from whence it is slightly curved inward to its
tip; discal transverse vein hardly curved inward, parted by rather
less than its length from the border and from the flexure of the
præbrachial. Alulæ white. Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 8
lines.
Mount Ophir, at the height of 4000 feet.
Gen. MASICERA, _Macquart_.
68. Masicera tomentosa, _Macq. Dipt. Exot. Suppl._ 2.
Mount Ophir, at the height of 4000 feet.
69. MASICERA VICARIA, n. s., fœm. Nigra, longiuscula, capite albo,
frontalibus atris, thoracis vittis quatuor, lateribus scutello
abdominisque fasciis duabus latis interruptis canis, alis cinereis.
_Female._ Black, rather long. Head white, with short white hairs
beneath and behind; frontalia linear, deep black; facialia without
bristles; epistoma not prominent. Eyes pubescent. Antennæ extending
nearly to the epistoma; 3rd joint linear, slender, slightly rounded
at the tip, about four times the length of the 2nd; arista rather
stout for full one-third of the length from the base, very much
longer than the 3rd joint. Thorax with four hoary stripes; sides and
scutellum hoary. Abdomen elongate-obconical, much longer than the
thorax, with two broad interrupted hoary bands. Legs stout. Wings
grey; veins black; præbrachial vein forming a rather obtuse angle at
its flexure, from whence it is slightly curved inward to its tip;
discal transverse vein undulating, parted by very little less than
its length from the border and from the flexure of the præbrachial.
Alulæ whitish. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 9 lines.
Singapore.
Gen. EURIGASTER, _Macquart_.
70. EURIGASTER MUSCOÏDES, n. s., fœm. Nigra lata, capite
albido, frontalibus nigris, palpis testaceis, thorace cano
nigro-quadrivittato, scutelli apice fulvo, abdomine cano-fasciato,
alis cinereis apud costam fuscescentibus.
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