from the PMlippine Islands. 203 



Calohata monedula n. sp. $ Front ferruginous, vertex 

 and occiput dark metalHc blackish blue, as well as the fronto- orbital 

 stripes, descending from the vertex on both sides of the ocelli; (in some 

 specimens the metallic lustre disappears and the vertex appears only 

 brownish); antennae black. Thorax black, with a slight bluish metallic 

 lustre on the pleurae; humeri brownish; mesonotum clothed with a yel- 

 lowish gray pollen, upon which two darker stripes are faintly percep- 

 tible; the fan of hairs above the middle coxae is black; halteres dark 

 brown; abdomen black, with slight bluish metallic reflexions and broad 

 fuliginous crossbands; ovipositor brown, as long as the whole abdomen. 

 Legs brown; front coxae sometimes reddish; front tarsi white; the root 

 of the middle and bind femora yellow; ends of the bind femora yel- 

 lowish-brown. The wings (Q) are not longer than head and thorax 

 taken together; first posterior cell closed, but not petiolate; the anterior 

 basal crossvein is a little nearer the root of the wing than the posterior 

 one; a feebly marked brown crossband runs between the tip of the 

 first vein and the anal angle; another broader crossband has its straight 

 proximal side immediately beyond the anterior crossvein; its ill-defined 

 and somewhat convex distal side begins at the tip of the second vein 

 and ends at the tip of the fifth; the extreme apex of the wing is also 

 infuscated, but so that the interval between this infuscation and the 

 second crossband is but little narrower than that crossband. Length 

 (without the ovipositor) 8 — 9 mm, Three females. 



NB. This species will be easily distinguished by its short wings 

 (at least in the female); its very long ovipositor; the absence of the 

 velvet-black spot on the ferruginous front; the position of the anterior 

 basal crossvein, the comparatively short and slender legs, the bind fe- 

 mora of which, very slender on their proximal half, are sligthly enlarged 

 on the distal; the absence of a pale ring before the tip of the dark 

 femora. It has a pair of post-vertical bristles. 



Calohata (Taeniaptera) nigripe s v. d. Wulp (Sumatra Exp. 

 54, Tab. III, f. 13). Agrees exactly with the description and figure, 

 except that the thorax in somewhat bluish, and not pure black; the 

 knob of the halteres is brown, but the peduncle yellowish ; the abdomenj 

 •like the thorax, has bluish reflections. The arista on its proximal half, 

 shows vestiges of a microscopic pubescence. A single female. 



Calohata territa n. sp. ^Q. Yellowish -ferruginous, ab- 

 domen darker; wings yellowish, unicolorous, femora brown at tip. 

 Length: 7 — 10 mm. 



Antennal scapus reddish-brown ; third Joint but little longer than 

 XXVI. Heft. II. 14. 



