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
_Male._ Black. Head white, with short white hairs beneath; frontalia
deep black, linear. Proboscis testaceous. Palpi black. Third joint
of the antennæ tawny. Thorax hoary, with four black stripes, of
which the outer pair are very much broader than the inner pair.
Abdomen a little narrower than the thorax, with two broad whitish
testaceous semihyaline bands which are interrupted above. Femora
testaceous, with black tips; tibiæ piceous. Wings limpid, grey
towards the tips and along the hind borders; veins black;
præbrachial vein forming an obtuse angle at its flexure from whence
it is slightly curved inward to its tip, which joins the cubital
very near the border; discal transverse vein very slightly curved
inward, parted by less than its length from the border, and by more
than its length from the flexure of the præbrachial. Alulæ white.
Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 10 lines.
Singapore.
Subfam. DEXIDES, _Walk._
Gen. DEXIA, _Meigen_.
72. DEXIA DIVERGENS, n. s. (gen. Thelaira, _Desv._), mas. Cana longa
angusta, capite albo, frontalibus atris, proboscide palpis
antennisque testaceis, aristâ plumosâ, thorace nigro-quadrivittato,
abdomine testaceo semihyalino, vittâ fasciisque nigris, pedibus
longis testaceis, tarsia nigris, alia subcinereis.
_Male._ Body hoary, long, narrow, with long black bristles. Head
white; frontalia deep black, widening from the vertex to the
antennæ; facialia without bristles; epistoma not prominent. Eyes
bare. Proboscis and palpi testaceous. Antennæ testaceous, not nearly
extending to the epistoma; 3rd joint slender; arista black, plumose.
Thorax with four black stripes, of which the outer pair are broader
than the inner pair. Abdomen testaceous, semihyaline, with a black
dorsal stripe, and with a black band on the hind border of each
segment. Legs long, testaceous; tarsi black. Wings greyish; veins
black; præbrachial vein forming a hardly obtuse angle at its
flexure, from whence it is indistinctly undulating to its tip which
joins the costal at a little in front of the tip of the wing; discal
transverse vein slightly curved inward near its hind end, parted by
hardly more than half its length from the border, and by hardly less
than its length from the flexure of the præbrachial. Alulæ whitish.
Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 11 lines.
Mount Ophir.
Subfam. SARCOPHAGIDES.
Gen. SARCOPHAGA, _Meigen_.
73. Sarcophaga ruficornis, _Fabr. Syst. Antl._ 287. 12. (Musca.)
Malacca. Inhabits also Hindostan.
74. SARCOPHAGA RECIPROCA, n. s., fœm. Cana, capite albo, frontalibus
palpis antennis thoracis vittis pedibusque nigris, abdomine
subtessellato, alis subcinereis.
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