392 INSECTA SAC>'DEB6IA>A. 



halteres yellow, with pitchy knobs. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the 

 wings 7i lines. 

 East Indies. 



Calobata leccomelas. 



Purpureo-nigra ; antenna testacece, artimlo Zo supra nigra; thorax 

 cinereo bivittatus ; abdomen chalybctum; pedes nigro-picei,femjribu.<t 

 posticis albo fasciatis basijlavis, tarsis anticiset posticis albis ; alee 

 subcinerece. 



Purplish black, slender, head not longer than broad, testaceous above 

 each feeler, silvery white along the eyes : mouth black ; tip testaceous : 

 feelers testaceous ; third joint black above and at the tip, conical, longer 

 tliau the first and the second ; sixth black, pubescent: chest with two gray 

 stripes : abdomen chalybeous, linear, about half the breadth and twice the 

 length of the chest: legs pitchy black, long, slender; hind-thighs pale 

 yellow at the base, and with a white band at two-thirds of the length ; 

 fore-feet and hind-feet snowy white: wings slightly grayish; veins black: 

 halteres pale yellow, with pitchy knobs. Length of the body 6 lines ; of 

 the wings 9 lines. 



South America. 



Calobata vaeipes, Foem. 



Nigra; caput purpureo-nigrum ; antennm testacea, apice picecE ; thorax 

 cinereo bivittatus ; pectus cyaneum ; abdomen compressum, apice at - 

 tenuatum, basi subtus testaceum ; femora posteriora basi fulva, postica 

 albido fasciata ; tarsi anteriores albi; alee subfulvce. 



Black: head purplish black, testaceous on each side above the feelers, 

 silvery white by the eyes, not longer than broad : mouth pitchy : feelers 

 testaceous; third joint towards the tip and following joints pitchy; third 

 conical, longer than the first and the second : chest with two gray stripes : 

 breast blue: abdomen compressed, tapering towards the tip, testaceous be- 

 neath towards the base, nearly twice the length of the chest : legs black ; 

 hinder thighs tawny for half the length from the base ; hind-thighs with a 

 broad yellowish white band a little before three-fourihs of the length ; 



