Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected at Singapore and Malacca

by Alfred Russel Wallace

Malacca. Inhabits also Java.

27. Laphria alternans, Wied. Auss. Zweifl. i. 511. 20.

Singapore. Inhabits also Java.

28. Laphria Orcus, n. s., fœm. Nigra, nigro-hirsuta, scutello nigro-cyaneo, abdomine pedibusque nigro-purpureis, alis nigricantibus areolarum discis pallidioribus, halteribus albidis.

Female. Black, with black hairs and bristles. Face slightly convex. Mystax with numerous black bristles, extending over the whole surface. Scutellum dark blue. Abdomen and legs dark purple, the latter with whitish hairs on the coxæ. Wings blackish; disks of several of the areolets much paler; veins black. Halteres whitish. Length of the body 8 lines; of the wings 14 lines.

Malacca.

29. Laphria aurifacies, Macq. Dipt. Exot. Suppl. iii. 22. 33. pl. 2. f. 5.

Singapore and Malacca. Inhabits also the Moluccas.

30. Laphria elegans, Walk. Cat. Dipt. 2nd Ser. 551. 126.

Mount Ophir. Inhabits also Hindostan.