. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. Natural history. 382 A NATURALIST'S WANDERINGS men and on the four terminal segments, both above and below: thorax and abdomen with strong steel-blue reflexions, especially on the basal. DiELis LABATEXsis. (With the permission of the council of tho Zoological Society.) half of the abdomen above ; wings deep violet-brown, second recurrent nervure incomplete, diverging from the first at tho base and on the left wing; the nervule connecting the recurrent nervures above the middle is al
. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago; a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. Natural history. 382 A NATURALIST'S WANDERINGS men and on the four terminal segments, both above and below: thorax and abdomen with strong steel-blue reflexions, especially on the basal. DiELis LABATEXsis. (With the permission of the council of tho Zoological Society.) half of the abdomen above ; wings deep violet-brown, second recurrent nervure incomplete, diverging from the first at tho base and on the left wing; the nervule connecting the recurrent nervures above the middle is also obsolete. (1957, Larat.) Much resembles the Australian Trielis anthracina, Burm., in appear- ance. * Chetsis melanops, Kirby, loc. sup. cit. Long. Corp. 5 lin. Male. Bright green, with a coppery reflection on the head and thorax (very bright coppery red wherever abraded); punctures large, close together, but not confluent; ocelli black, the space between and immedi- ately around also blackish; apes'of abdomen (and summit, when viewed sideways) with a strong blue reflection; under surface of antennae, the greater part of the hind legs, and the tips and under surface of the middle tibiiB and middle tarsi brown; abdomen sexdentate, with equal and rather pointed teeth of moderate size; wings brown. (2049, Maru.) Probably allied to C. paraUela, Brull6, from Timor; but that species is varied with blue on the head and thorax, instead of with copper. DI p T E E A. The only Diptera in the collection were Plecia fulvicollis, Wied., and Laphria gloriosa. Walk., both of which are common species in the Eastern Archipelago, and a Tabanus, possibly new, but in too bad condition to describe. VIIT.—List of the Crustacea collected in the Timor-laut Islands by Mb. H. 0. FoEBES. Determined by E. J. Mieks, Pilumnus vespertilio, Fabr. ad. $. Neptunus pelagicus, Linn. Thalamita cienata, Eiippell, ad. $ .. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images th
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