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MB. walker’s CATALOGUE OE DIPTEROUS INSECTS 
base and at the tips ; fore tarsi and hind tarsi whitish. Wings very slightly 
greyish, with three limpid spots forming a curved band near the tips which 
are also limpid ; veins black. Length of the body 3£-4 lines ; of the wings 
5-6 lines. 
Singapore and Mount Ophir. 
Gen. Neritjs, Wied. 
122. Nerius fuscipennis, Macq. Dipt. JExot. ii. 3. 241. 1. pi. 325. f. 5. 
Singapore and Mount Ophir. Inhabits also Java and the Philippine Islands. 
Gen. Texara, n. g. ( Plate II. Jig. 5.) 
Faem. Corpus graeile, non setosum. Caput subproductum ; facies brevis. Antennae 
epistoma attingentes ; articulus 3^ clavatus ; arista pubescens, subapicalis. 
Thorax subfusiformis. Abdomen lanceolatum, thorace angustiuB et duplb 
longius. Pedes postici longi, femoribus incrassatis serratis, tarsia anticis sub- 
dilatatis. Alee angust®. 
Female. Body slender, without bristles. Head slightly produced, as broad as 
the thorax ; face short ; epistoma not prominent. Antenn® extending to the 
epistoma ; third joint clavate j arista minutely pubescent, seated near the tip 
of the third joint. Thorax subfusiform. Abdomen lanceolate, narrower than 
the thorax and about twice its length. Anterior legs moderately long and 
stout ; fore tarsi slightly dilated ; hind legs long ; hind femora incrassated, 
serrated beneath 5 hind tibise slightly curved. Wings narrow ; subcostal vein 
not extending to one-third of the length of the wing ; mediastinal vein not 
extending to half the length ; radial extending to a little beyond three-quarters 
of the length ; cubital ending at very little in front of the tip of the wing ; 
discal transverse vein straight, upright, parted by less than its length from the 
border, and by about thrice its length from the prsebrachial transverse. 
123. Texara compressa, n. s., feem. Nigra, capite nigro-cyaneo subtiis cano, 
antennis piceis, arista albidA, alis subcinereis, halteribus albidis. 
Female. Black. Head bluish-black, with hoary tomentum beneath. Antennae 
piceous; arista whitish. Wings greyish 5 veins black. Halteres whitish. 
Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 
Singapore. 
Description of Plates I. and II. 
Obs. All the figures are more or less magnified, and the outline-details comprise 
the side and front views of the head, antennae, aud base of the wings. 
Plate I. 
Fig. 1. Massicyta bicolor ; la, head seen sideways; 15, the head seen in 
front; lc, antenna. 
Fig. 2. Zambesa Ocypteroides ; 2a, head sideways ; 25, ditto in front 2c, an- 
tenna. 
Fig. 3. Xangelina basigutta’, 3 a, head sideways ; 35, ditto in front ; 3c, an- 
tenna ; 3d, base of the wing. 
Fig. 4. Xarnnta leucotelus ; 4 a, head sideways ; 45, ditto in front ; 4 c, an- 
tenna ; 4 d, base of wing. 
