DIl'J'KllA. o'Jl 



Calobata picea, Foem. 



Ferruginea, gracillhna ; thorax n'ujro trivittatua ; abdomen attenuulum 

 apice nigrum; pedes picei, fulvo et ferruginea varii ; alcefuscw, alio 

 hifasciake, basi et poslice cinerece. 



Ferruginous, very slender: head a little longer than broad; crown 

 with a rather deep furrow : feelers short, third joint very short-conical, not 

 longer than the second ; sixth pitchy, pubescent : chest with three hlack 

 stripes : abdomen black ami shining towards the tip, tapering from near 

 the base unto the tip, much narrower than the chest and more than twice 

 its length : legs pitchy, long, slender ; fore-hips yellow ; fore-thighs and 

 fore-shanks ferruginous ; fore-thighs towards the base and posterior hips 

 tawny ; posterior thighs with two tawny bands : wings brown, pale gray 

 towards the base and along the hind borders, with two short white bands 

 towards the tips ; veins black, tawny at the base. Length of the body 

 5 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



Van Dieman's Land. 



Calobata basalis. 



Chalybcca; caput purpureo-cganeum, antice nrgeuteum; antetvuc nigne ; 

 abdomen nigro-fuscum, fasciis duahus chalgbais; pedes ant ici nigri, 

 tarsis apice albis ; pedes posteriores picei, femoribus fuJms piceo tri- 

 fasciatis, femoribus posticis basijlavis; alee subiimpidw, sat breves, 

 fusco trifasciatcB. 



Chalgbeoiis, rather slender: head purplish blue, shining, hardly longer 

 thcin broad, silvery white on each side in front ; frontalia deep black, widen- 

 ing from the eyelets to the feelers ; face ferruginous : mouth hlack : feelers 

 black ; third joint conical, ferruginous at the base, longer than the first 

 and the second ; si.xth pubescent, ferruginous at the base: abdomen blackish 

 broum, tapering towards the tip, with two steel-blue bands near the l)ase, 

 much narrower than the chest and more than twice its length : legs long, 

 slender; fore-legs black; their feet white towards the tips: hinder legs 

 })itchy ; their thighs tawny with three pitchy bands ; hind-thighs yellow 

 at the base: wings rather short, almost colourless, with three broad brown 

 bands; first short; third at the tip; veins black, tawny at the base: 



