. Fig. 22. Siphunculina signata Roiid., wing. Halters and their stalks pale yellow. Legs pale yellow except for blackened tips to all the femora and a broad blackened ring on the hind tibiae. Abdomen blackish brown, the basal part of the dorsal surface and the venter paler. The female has a well developed soft ovipositor. Size about If mm. Localities. Seychelles. Silhouette: Mare aux Cochons, IX. 1908. Mahe: Cascade Estate, about 1000 ft., 1909. Siphunculina, Rondani. Siphunculina Rondani, Prodr., i. (1856), p. 128. 44. Siphunculina signata (Wollaston), Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, i. (1858),
. Fig. 22. Siphunculina signata Roiid., wing. Halters and their stalks pale yellow. Legs pale yellow except for blackened tips to all the femora and a broad blackened ring on the hind tibiae. Abdomen blackish brown, the basal part of the dorsal surface and the venter paler. The female has a well developed soft ovipositor. Size about If mm. Localities. Seychelles. Silhouette: Mare aux Cochons, IX. 1908. Mahe: Cascade Estate, about 1000 ft., 1909. Siphunculina, Rondani. Siphunculina Rondani, Prodr., i. (1856), p. 128. 44. Siphunculina signata (Wollaston), Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, i. (1858), p. 117, PI. V, fig. 8 [Oscinis]. This insect was described and figured by Wollaston from Madeira. Specimens in the collection agree well with this description and also with that of Becker in the Archiv. Zool., i. (No. 10), p. 132. The wing is figured (Fig. 22), as Wollaston's figure is not very clear. Locality. Cargados Islands: Establishment Island and Siren Island, 27—28. VIII. 1905. 43—2
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