394 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



Calobata ATRA. 



Atra, robusta ; caput longitudine latins; antennce picea ; abdomen clava- 

 tum; pedes validi, tibiis posticis subarcuatis ; alee albidce, casta 

 fasciaque fuscis. 



Deep black, stout : head broader than lon^, a little broader tlian the 

 chest, whitish about the borders of the eyes; crown with two very slight 

 longitudinal furrows: mouth a.nd feelers pitchy; third joint of the feelers 

 linear, rounded at the tip, about four times the length of the second ; sixth 

 pubescent : abdomen clavate, nearly twice the length of the chest : legs 

 stout; hind-shanks slightly curved: wings whitish, dark brown along the 

 fore border from the base unto beyond the tips, and with a dark brown very 

 broad slightly curved band which incloses the cross-veins ; veins pitchy, 

 yellow in the colourless part towards the tip : halteres testaceous. Length 

 of the body 5^ lines; of the wings 10 lines. 



Calobata guttata. 



Ferruginea ; caput latitudine multo longius. subellipticum, subtus chaly- 

 bceum ; antennce nigra ; thoracis discus piceus ; pectus chalybcBum ; 

 abdomen chalybceuin, subclavatum, basi et segmentoriim marginibus 

 posticis ferrugineis ; pedes antici nigri ; femora posteriora fulva ; 

 tibia; tarsique posteriora picea, hi basi testacei ; ahc fuscce, basi fascia 

 maculisque tribus limpidis. 



Ferruginous : head broader than the chest, very much longer than 

 broad, almost elliptical, chalybeous beneath ; crown black, shining ; fron- 

 talia broad, deep black, velvet-like, very slightly widening from the back 

 part to the feelers: mouth pitchy: feelers black ; third joint long-conical, 

 longer than the first and the second ; sixth thinly feathered with long 

 hairs: disk of the chest pitchy : breast chalybeous : abdomen subclavate, 

 chalybeous, ferruginous towards the base and along the hind borders of 

 the segments, narrower than the chest and nearly twice its length: legs 

 rather long and slender; fore-legs black ; posterior thighs tawny ; posterior 

 shanks and feet pitchy, the latter pale testaceous towards the base : wings 

 brown, colourless at the base, and before the middle with a colourless band 

 which is narrowest in the disk, and with three colourless spots nearer the 



