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Contributor: A. R. Wallace

CATALOGUE OF THE DIPTEROUS INSECTS COLLECTED AT SINGAPORE AND MALACCA BY MR. A. R. WALLACE, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES.

BY FRANCIS WALKER, ESQ., F.L.S.

WILLIAM WILSON SAUNDERS.

Singapore and Mount Ophir.

Singapore. Inhabits also Java.

Malacca. Inhabits also Hindostan.

Singapore.

Fam. TIPULIDAE

Singapore.

Singapore.

The structure of the wing-veins in the above division is almost, but not quite, identical with that of the following species.

Mount Ophir.

Singapore.

Malacca and Singapore. Inhabits also Java, Sumatra, and the Philippine Islands.

Malacca.

Singapore. Inhabits also Java and Sumatra.

Malacca. Inhabits also Java.

Singapore.

Singapore.

Singapore.

Singapore. Inhabits also Java, Sumatra, and Hindostan.

Gen. MASSICYTA, n. g.

Body rather long and narrow. Head transverse, short, very little broader than the thorax. Antennae slender, a little shorter than the thorax; 1st joint linear; 2nd elongate fusiform, very little longer than the 1st; 3rd acuminated, very minute. Thorax elongate elliptical. Abdomen obclavate, subpetiolated, a little more than twice the length of the thorax. Legs slender. Wings rather long and narrow; mediastinal, subcostal, radial and cubital veins, and median veinlet of the usual structure; 1st, 2nd and 4th externo-medial veins complete; 3rd abbreviated; subanal joining the anal at some distance from the border; discal areolet irregularly hexagonal, elongated, narrower towards the tip of the wing.

Singapore.

Malacca. Inhabits also Java.

Singapore.

The description in the above reference will not well apply to the two following varieties of this species.

Mount Ophir. Inhabits also Borneo.

Singapore.

Mount Ophir and Malacca. Inhabits also Hindostan and Java.

Malacca.

Malacca. Inhabits also Java and Sumatra.

Malacca and Mount Ophir.

Malacca. Inhabits also Java.

Singapore. Inhabits also Java.

Malacca.

Singapore and Malacca. Inhabits also the Moluccas.

Mount Ophir. Inhabits also Hindostan.

Singapore.

This may be the female of the following species.

Mount Ophir, at the height of 4000 feet.

Singapore.

Singapore.

Singapore.

Singapore.

Singapore.

Singapore.

Malacca.

Singapore.

Malacca.

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