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._ Bright bluish-green. Head and appendages and legs black;
face white. Sides of the thorax slightly purplish. Abdomen green,
with slight whitish tomentum along each side and at the tip. Wings
almost limpid; veins black; præbrachial vein forming a very obtuse
and slightly rounded angle at its flexure, from whence to its tip it
is hardly curved inward; discal transverse vein hardly curved
inward, 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 greyish. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 6
lines.
Malacca.
82. MUSCA DEFIXA, n. s. (genus Lucilia, _Desv._), mas. Cyaneo-viridis,
capite albido, epistomate testaceo, palpis pedibusque nigris,
antennis fulvis, alis subcinereis.
_Male._ Bluish-green. Head whitish; epistoma testaceous. Proboscis,
palpi and legs black. Antennæ tawny. Wings greyish; veins black;
præbrachial vein forming a slightly obtuse and slightly rounded
angle at its flexure, from whence to its tip it is moderately curved
inward; discal transverse vein slightly undulating, parted by
one-third of its length from the border, and by less than half its
length from the flexure of the præbrachial. Alulæ grey. Length of
the body 3 lines; of the wings 6 lines.
Singapore.
83. MUSCA REFLECTENS, n. s. (genus Pollenia, _Desv._), fœm.
Purpureocyanea, viridi-varia, capite fulvo, frontalibus cinereis,
palpis antennisque testaceis, pectore testaceo, maculis duabus
purpureo-cyaneis, abdomine cano-subtessellato, apice æneo, pedibus
validis nigris, tibiis fulvis, alis subcinerascentibus.
_Female._ Purplish-blue tinged with green, hardly shining. Head
fawn-colour, testaceous in front; frontalia cinereous. Proboscis
black. Palpi, antennæ and pectus testaceous, the latter with a
purplish-blue mark on each side. Abdomen slightly tessellated with
hoary tomentum, æneous at the tip. Legs black, stout; tibiæ tawny.
Wings very slightly greyish; veins black, testaceous towards the
base and along the costa; præbrachial vein forming a very obtuse
angle at its flexure, from whence it is slightly undulating to its
tip; discal transverse vein very deeply undulating, parted by full
half its length from the border, and by much less than its length
from the flexure of the præbrachial vein. Alulæ white. Length of the
body 5 lines; of the wings 10 lines.
Malacca.
84. MUSCA INFIXA, n. s. (genus Silbomyia, _Macq._), fœm.
Viridi-cyanea, capite albido, frontalibus antennisque nigris, palpis
fulvis, thoracis vittis quatuor abdomineque purpureis, pedibus
piceis, femoribus cyanascentibus, alis cinereis costâ venisque
fusco-marginatis.
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