454 R. OSTEN SACKEN 



besides the brown apex ; the velvet-black frontal spot is 

 drawn out posteriorly in a point , upon which are the 

 ocelli ; the vertex behind this point is metallic, shining. 



A narrow, lunate, hyaline crossband begins at 

 the end of the second vein. 



lunaria n. sp. 



The hyaline crossband at the end of the second 

 vein is as broad as the brown crossband , which 

 precedes it. 



morbida n. sp. 



Calobata tipuloides Walk., J. Pr. Lin. Soc. VIII, 125. (N. 

 Guin.) ! 



Two specimens; Ramoi, N. Guinea^ Febr. 1875 (Beccari). 



A well marked species, the description of wliicli in M.^" Wal- 

 ker is recognizable. 



Calobata albimana Dolesch. (Taenioptera) I Bijdr. 11 (413) 

 Tab. 10, f. 4 (Java)! 



Twelve specimens from Kandari , Celebes (Apr. 1874), five 

 from Ternate (1875) and two from Ramoi and Soron, N. Gui- 

 nea (Febr. 1875) all Ijy M.'' Beccar i. 



Antennae, including the base of the arista, ferruginous; front 

 and vertex metallic-bluish, shining^ except a velvet-black round 

 spot on the front, and a similar spot, of less regular shape, on the 

 vertex ; between them, the surroundings of the ocelli have, from 

 a side-view , a whitish reflection. Mentum and palpi reddish- 

 yellow , the latter brownish at the end. Thorax black , with 

 metallic bluish reflections ; thinly grayish pollinose, which does 

 not prevent it from being somewhat shining , especially ante- 

 riorly and on the scutelluni ; on the pleurae and pectus , the 

 pollen is more silvery; an opaque black stripe runs from the 

 humerus to the root of the halteres. Abdomen bluish-metallic , 

 more shining at the base than posteriorly ; the ovipositor of the 

 same color; hind margins of the intermediate segments reddish 



