890 INSECTA SAUNDERSTANA. 



Calobata tebminalis, Mas. 



Ferruginea, gracilis ; caput latitudine vix longius, antice argenteum ; 

 thorax bivittatux ; abdomen clavatwn, apice nigrum ; pedes fer- 

 rugiiiei, plceo varii ; alee ftiscce, fasciis tribus albis. 



Pale ferruginous, slender : head hardly longer than broad, silvery 

 white in front; crown with a longitudinal furrow and with a pitchy stripe 

 on each side ; epistoma and mouth mostly pitcliy : chest with a darker 

 stripe on the fore part ; hind-chest dark ferruginous with a hoary covering: 

 abdomen clavate, much longer and narrower than the chest, black towards 

 the tip : legs long, slender ; fore-feet and posterior shanks and feet pitchy ; 

 middle thighs with a broad pitchy band : wings pale brown, with three 

 white bands ; the first curved inward, a little before the middle ; the third 

 near the tip, more slender than the second ; veins black, tawny towards the 

 base. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



Calobata valida, Mas. 



Nigra : caput ferrugineurn ; metathorax et pectus cyanea ; abdomen clava- 

 tum ; pedes fulvi, femorihus posteriorihus apice testaceis, tarsis piceis, 

 iibiis anticis nigris, tarsis anticis albis hasi nigris ; almfuscce, basi 

 limpidce,fasciis duabus albidis. 



Black : head ferruginous, a little broader than the chest, not longer 

 than broad ; crown bluish black, shining ; frontalia ferruginous, widening 

 from the eyelets to the feelers: moutli pitchy: third joint of the feelers 

 pitchy above, long-conical, longer than the first and the second : hind-chest 

 and breast i)lue, the latter ferruginous in front : abdomen clavate, with a 

 hoary tinge along the hind borders of the segments, much narrower and 

 longer than the chest: legs tawny; hinder thighs testaceous towards the 

 tips ; shanks darker than the thighs : feet pitchy ; fore-shanks black ; fore- 

 feet white, black towards the base : wings pale brown, colourless at the 

 base, with two whitish bands, one a little before the middle, the other near 

 the tip ; veins black, tawny towards the base ; fifth longitudinal vein 

 united to the fourth, very near the tip of the wing. Length of the body 

 3i lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



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