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.
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.