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Genus CALOBATA, Fnhr. 



Calobata compressa, Mas et Foem. 



Fi-rruginea ; caput piceo bivittafum, anlice aryenteuin ; thorax nigra vil- 

 tatus ; abdomen nigrum; pedes picei, femoribus fuhit ; alee cinerea, 

 basi fiisciisque tribus albis. 



Ferruginous: head silvery while in front; crown with a tawny longitu- 

 dinal furrow and with a pitchy stripe on each side : mouth pitchy ; palpi 

 tawny : chest with a black stripe which is tinged with gray : abdomen black, 

 slender, long, compressed: legs pitchy, long, slender; thighs tawny, pos- 

 terior thighs with pitchy tips : wings gray, whitish at the hase and adorned 

 with three white bands; first band semicircular ; second and third almost 

 straight ; third much more slender than the second ; veins black : halteres 

 ferruginous with pitchy knobs. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 

 10 lines. 



Calobata bbevipennis, Mas. 



Nigra, obscura, sat brevis ; caput latitudine vix longius, thorace paullo 

 latius, latcribm ferrngineis ; antennw ferruginea ; abdomen clavatum ; 

 pedes fulvi, antici nigri, femora posteriora clavata, tarsi posteriores 

 ferruginei, basi testacei; aUc breves, subiimpidce, fasciis tribus fuscis. 



Dull black, rather short: head hardly longer than broad, a little 

 broader than the chest, ferruginous on each side above the feelers : moulh 

 and palpi tawny : feelers ferruginous ; third joint pitchy above towards the 

 tip, long-conical, longer than the first and the second ; sixth thinly fea- 

 thered with long hairs : breast shining : abdomen clavate, luurower than 

 the chest and nearly twice its length : legs tawny ; fore-legs black ; hinder 

 thighs partly pitchy, clavate, slender towards their tijis ; hinder feet ferru- 

 ginous, pale testaceous at the base : wings short, almost colourless, with 

 two broad brown bands, and with a very slender interrupted brown Itand 

 near the tip ; first band near the base ; second beyond the middle ; little 

 cross-vein between them clouded with dark brown ; veins black : halteres 

 ferruginous, with black knobs. Length of the body 3^ lines ; of the wings 

 5 lines. 



Brazil. 



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