Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected at Singapore and Malacca — John Shaqi
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._ Green. Head whitish and shining above, black and shining in
front. Frontalia dull black, linear, furcate hindward. Antennæ
tawny. Thorax with a slight hoary bloom and with four slender black
stripes. Abdomen æneous at the tip and along each side, and with a
slight black dorsal stripe. Legs black; coxæ and femora green. Wings
grey, blackish along the costa and at the tips. Alulæ dingy whitish.
Halteres whitish. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 5 lines.
Malacca.
Gen. MUSCA, _Linn._
78. Musca flaviceps, _Macq. Dipt. Exot._ ii. 2. 145. 23. pl. 18. f. 1.
(Lucilia.) (Genus Chrysomyia, _Desv._)
Singapore. Inhabits also Hindostan.
79. MUSCA CHRYSOÏDES, n. s. (genus Chrysomyia, _Desv._), mas.
Sericeo-viridis, capite testaceo, palpis antennisque fulvis,
abdominis vittâ dorsali fasciisque nigris, alis subcinereis apice
obscurioribus.
_Male._ Sericeous green, hardly shining. Head testaceous. Proboscis
black. Palpi and antennæ tawny. Abdomen with a black dorsal stripe,
and with a black band on the hind border of each segment. Legs
black; coxæ and femora green. Wings greyish, much darker towards the
tips; veins black, tawny along the costa; præbrachial vein forming a
very obtuse and somewhat rounded angle at its flexure, from whence
it is slightly curved inward to its tip; discal transverse vein
deeply undulating, parted by much less than its length from the
border, and by a little less than its length from the flexure of the
præbrachial vein. Alulæ dingy testaceous. Length of the body 5
lines; of the wings 10 lines.
Malacca and Mount Ophir.
80. MUSCA PORPHYRINA, n. s. (genus Lucilia, _Desv._), fœm. Purpurea,
capite albido, antennis pedibusque nigris, palpis fulvis, abdomine
æneo-purpureo, alis cinereis.
_Female._ Purple. Head whitish. Proboscis and antennæ black. Palpi
tawny. Thorax with a slight hoary tinge which is very indistinctly
striped. Abdomen bronze-purple. Legs black. Wings grey; veins black;
præbrachial vein forming a very slightly obtuse angle at its
flexure, from whence it is very slightly curved inward to its tip;
discal transverse vein nearly straight, parted by little more than
half its length from the border and from the flexure of the
præbrachial. Alulæ dark grey. Length of the body 4½ lines; of the
wings 9 lines.
Mount Ophir, at the height of 4000 feet.
81. MUSCA TRITA, n. s. (genus Lucilia, _Desv._), fœm. Cyaneo-viridis,
capite pedibusque nigris, facie albâ, thoracis lateribus
subpurpurascentibus, abdominis lateribus apiceque albido-tomentosis,
alis sublimpidis.
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