306 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1895. 



brownish tint. Seven specimens, Palatka, May 19, St. Augustine, 

 May 21, 1894. 

 Calobata varipes n. sp. 



Length 14 mm., $ . Head bluish-black, shining, opaque with 

 black pile above and below the antennae; vertex, in a depression 

 surrounding the ocelli with dense yellowish pubescence, vertex with 

 eight prominent bristles; occiput with black pile; antennae red, setae 

 black, first and second joints covered with short black hairs; proboscis 

 black. Thorax black, posterior angles brownish, d< »rsum with a grayish 

 pubescence, leaving two narrow black stripes which become obsolete 

 beyond the sutures, pleurae black, shining, metapleurse and metano- 

 tum covered, with whitish pubescence. Scutellum blackish above, 

 brown beneath. Abdomen black, shining. Coxae and femora red; 

 tip, and a baud a little beyond the middle of the posterior and middle 

 femora and the apical third of the anterior femora black, anterior 

 and posterior tibiae black, middle tibiae brown, first and second joints 

 of the anterior and posterior tarsi white, the remainder of the an- 

 terior and posterior tarsi, and the entire middle tarsi black; the legs 

 are covered throughout with short, black hairs, with some bristles on 

 the tibiae. Wings tinged with brown, which is more conspicuous 

 along the anterior margin, tip and cross veins. 



One specimen, Jacksonville, May 22, 1894. 

 Heterochroa ornata n. sp. 



Length 1\ mm., 9 . Face, front and occiput yellow, with yellow 

 pubescence; a row of black bristles extends from the base of the 

 antenme along the frontal and vertical orbits and around the occiput, 

 four bristles are arranged in a quadrangle around the ocelli; ocelli 

 whitish; antenme yellow, aristae and a prominent row of hairs on the 

 second joint black, aristae with minute hairs. Thorax and scutellum 

 yellow, with yellow pubescence, and black hairs and bristles. Ab- 

 domen brownish black, irregularly mottled with whitish pubescence 

 with a few scattering black hairs, which gives the white portions a 

 punctated appearance. Legs yellow, with black hairs and bristles. 

 The basal portion of the wing, including the costal cell, a small angle 

 of the marginal, submarginal, and half of the basal cell, anal angle, 

 and alar appendage, hyaline; the remainder of the wing clouded 

 with black, and having the following whitish hyaline markings: mar- 

 ginal cell with three spots, the middle one quadrate, and three or 

 four times the size of the others; submarginal cell with three spots, 



