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._ Fawn-colour. Thorax with two blackish stripes. Metathorax
and disk of the pectus blackish. Legs and halteres testaceous. Wings
limpid, pale brown along the costa, and with four pale brown bands;
1st and 2nd bands connected hindward; veins black, testaceous
towards the base. Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 7 lines.
Singapore.
Gen. VALONIA, n. g. (_Plate I. fig. 6._)
_Fœm._ _Corpus_ sat angustum, pubescens. _Caput_ anticè subdilatatum.
_Antennæ_ breviusculæ; articulus 3^{us} longi-conicus; arista
pubescens. _Abdomen_ fusiforme, thorace paullò longius. _Pedes_ sat
robusti. _Alæ_ angustæ, obscuræ, maculis limpidis.
Allied to _Platystoma_.—_Female._ Body rather narrow, dull, pubescent.
Head as broad as the thorax, slightly dilated in front; epistoma not
prominent. Proboscis and palpi short. Antennæ rather short, not
reaching the epistoma; 3rd joint elongate-conical; arista pubescent.
Abdomen fusiform, a little longer than the thorax. Legs rather
stout, especially the hind pair. Wings narrow, dark with limpid
spots; subcostal vein ending at before one-third of the length of
the wing; mediastinal ending at much beyond half the length; radial
ending at a little before three-quarters of the length; cubital and
subanal hardly undulating, the former ending at a little in front of
the tip of the wing; discal transverse vein straight and upright,
parted by less than half its length from the border, and by a little
less than its length from the præbrachial transverse.
112. VALONIA COMPLICATA, n. s., fœm. Obscurè cinerea, capite testaceo,
thorace nigro-punctato, abdomine guttis quatuor lateralibus albis
tomentosis subtùs testaceo, pedibus fulvis, femoribus posterioribus
tibiisque posticis nigris, alis subcinereis guttis plurimis
limpidis.
_Female._ Dark grey. Head and appendages testaceous. Thorax punctured
with black; humeral calli black, shining. Abdomen with two white
tomentous dots on each side; underside testaceous. Legs tawny;
posterior femora black, with tawny tips; hind tibiæ blackish except
at the base. Wings greyish, with very numerous limpid dots, blackish
and without dots along more than half the length of the costa; veins
black. Halteres testaceous. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings
5 lines.
Malacca.
Gen. SOPHIRA, n. g. (_Plate II. fig. 1._)
_Fœm._ _Corpus_ sat angustum, pubescens. _Caput_ thorace paullò
angustius. _Antennarum_ articulus 3^{us} longiusculus,
sublanceolatus; arista plumosa. _Abdomen_ subfusiforme, apice
attenuatum, thorace paullò longius. _Pedes_ graciles. _Alæ_
longiusculæ, sat angustæ, venis limbatis.
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