COLLECTED IN BATCniAN, KAISAA, ETC. 297 



abdomine longi-conico, tarsis albis apice nigris, alls albis nigro tri- 

 fasciatis, fascia 2" puiictura album includente, 3"^ apud costam excnv- 

 rente, halteribus piceis. 

 Female. Blue, shining. Head deep black above, piceous in front, sil- 

 very white about tiie eyes. Proboscis and palpi black. Antennae 

 tawny, very short ; 3rd joint conical, a little longer than the 2nd ; 

 arista plumose. Abdomen elongate-conical, longer than the thorax ; 

 oviduct black, long, lanceolate. Legs black ; tarsi white, with black 

 tips. Wings white, with three black bands; 1st band very near the 

 base ; 2nd broad, including a white costal point ; 3rd traversing the 

 discal transverse vein, continued along the costa to the tip of the 

 wing; veins black ; discal transverse vein straight, upright, parted by 

 less than half its length from the border, and by more than its length 

 from the prsebrachial transverse vein ; halteres piceous. Length of 

 the body 2^ lines; of the wings 4 lines. 



95*. Ortalis OBLiauA, n.s. Fcem. Cyanea, nitens, capite piceo antice 

 fulvo, palpis pedibusque nigris, antennis fulvis, arista nuda, thorace ' 

 vitta cinerea, abdomine subfusiformi subcompresso basi testaceo, fe- 

 raoribus anticis fulvis, alis albidis nigro trifasciatis, fascia 1" obliqua, 

 2" 3''que connexis, 3^ apicali, halteribus albidis. 



Female. Blue, shining. Head piceous above, tawny in front, shining 

 white about the eyes; peristoma large, produced. Proboscis and 

 palpi black. Antennaj tawny, nearly reaching the epistoma ; 3rd 

 joint linear, rounded at the tip ; arista simple, slender. Thorax with 

 a cinereous stripe ; pectus with cinereous tomentum. Abdomen sub- 

 fusiform, keeled above, slightly compressed, testaceous at the base, 

 longer than the thorax ; oviduct black, long, lanceolate. Legs black, 

 pubescent ; fore coxa; and fore femora tawny. Wings whitish, with 

 three black bands which are abbreviated hindward ; 1st band oblique, 

 proceeding from the base of the costa to the disk ; 2nd attenuated 

 hindward, connected on the costa with the 3rd, which is apical ; veins 

 black ; discal transverse vein straight, upright, imrted by one-fourth 

 of its length from the border, and by more than its length from the 

 praibrachial transverse vein ; halteres whitish. Length of the body 

 2^ lines ; of the wings 4 lines. 



Subfam. Sepsibes, Walk. 



Gen. Angitula, Walk. 



9(). Angitula longicollis. Walk, (see Vol. IIL p. 123), var. Fcem. 

 Cyanea, nitens, viridi purpureoque varia, capite antennisque pallide 

 luteis, articulo 3° apice nigro, abdomine fusiformi subtus luteo, pedi- 

 bus nigris, femoribus basi coxisque anticis albis, alis fuscescenti-cinc- 

 reis apice nigricantibus, costa basali halteribusque nigris. 



Female. Blue, shining, varied with green and with purple. Head pale 



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