1054 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



cond by the hind border, the colourless band between them is curved 

 outward ; wing-ribs and veins black ; third longitudinal vein 

 curved upward towards the tip, nearly joining the second on the 

 border of the wing at the tip ; lower cross-vein straight, very ob- 

 lique, near the hind border, more than its length distant from the 

 middle cross-vein ; poisers black. Length of the body 4 lines ; of 

 the wings 7 lines. 

 a. Jamaica. Fiom Mr. Gosse's collection. 



Calobata Uzita, n. s., mas. Cyanea, vertice thoracisque disco fulvo 

 ornatis, abdominis apice subtus piceo, palpis nigris, antennis 

 pedibusque fulvis, korum femoribus apice tibiisque nigris, tar sis 

 nigris basiflavis, alis subfulvis apice subfuscis. 

 Body dark blue, long, narrow : crown of the head and disk of 

 the chest adorned with tawny bloom : head oblong ; sides of the 

 face without bristles ; epistoma not prominent : eyes red, convex ; 

 all the facets very small : sucker and palpi black ; sucker clothed 

 with tawny hairs : feelers bright tawny ; third joint conical, a little 

 longer than the second ; bristle black, slender, bare, much more 

 than thrice the length of the third joint: chest spindle-shaped, 

 slightly compressed : abdomen linear, cylindrical, somewhat pitchy 

 beneath at the tip, narrower than the chest and nearly twice its 

 length : four hinder legs wanting ; fore legs tawny ; shanks and 

 tips of the thighs black ; feet black, first and second joints pale yel- 

 low, tip of the second joint dark brown : wings narrow, with a very 

 slight tawny tinge, brownish at the tips and at the end of the se- 

 cond longitudinal vein ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; third and 

 fourth longitudinal veins including a lengthened spindle-shaped 

 areolet, approaching very near each other at the tip ; lower cross- 

 vein brown, slightly curved outward, parted by more than four times 

 its length from the middle cross-vein and from the tip of the wing, 

 and by rather more than half its length from the hind border ; 

 poisers tawny, with ferruginous knobs. Length of the body 6 lines; 

 of the wings 9 lines. 



Calobata Abana, n. s., mas. Ferruginea, abdomine piceo, palpis 

 antennisque ferrugineis, pedibus fulvis, femoribus posterioribus 

 Jlavo trifasciatis, pedibus anticis tarsisque fuscis, alis sub cinereis. 

 Body dull ferruginous : head beset with very few bristles ; 

 sides of the face without bristles ; epistoma not prominent : eyes 

 red, convex ; all the facets small : sucker and palpi dull ferrugi- 

 nous ; sucker large, tawny at the base, clothed with a few tawny 



