Proceedings of 
the United States 
National Museum 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION « WASHINGTON, D.C. 
Volume 120 1966 Number 3562 
NOTES ON FLIES CAPTURED IN TREETOPS IN MALAYA 
(DIPTERA: EMPIDIDAE, NERITDAE, PLATYSTOMATIDAE, 
SEPSIDAE, MUSCIDAE) 
By GrorcE C. STEYSKAL ! 
An unusually interesting lot of Diptera captured on treetop plat- 
forms in the Selangor Gombak Forest Reserve, Malaya, by Dr. H. 
Klhott McClure, of the U.S. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 
was presented to this author for determination. The following notes 
are the result. All specimens are deposited in the collections of the 
United States National Museum (USNM). 
The following abbreviations, referring to leg parts, chaetotaxy, 
and wing veins, have been used throughout: a=anterior, acr= 
acrostichal, ad=anterodorsal, av=anteroventral, cr=coxa or coxae 
(cz, =forecoxa, etc.), d=dorsal, de=dorsocentral, f=femur or femora 
(fi=forefemur, etc.), fo=fronto-orbital, h=humeral, mspl=meso- 
pleural, ntpl=notopleural, p=posterior, pa=postalar, pd=postero- 
dorsal, ppl=propleural, pra=prealar, prs=presutural, prsc=pres- 
cutellar, pv=posteroventral, sa=supra-alar, sc=scutellar, sl= 
sublateral, stpl=sternopleural, t=tibia or tibiae (t;,=foretibia, etc.), 
ta=anterior crossvein, tp=posterior crossvein, v=ventral, vti=inner 
vertical. 
1 Entomology Research Division, Agriculture Research Service, U.S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 
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