LIST OF DIPTERA. 1055 



hairs : feelers ferruginous, much shorter than the face ; third joint 

 nearly linear, rounded at the tip, full twice the length of the second ; 

 bristle downy, very slender, near thrice the length of the third joint : 

 chest spindle-shaped : breast with a slight hoary tinge : abdomen 

 pitchy, linear, cylindrical, much longer and narrower than the chest: 

 legs dull tawny, |long, slender ; four hinder thighs adorned with 

 three indistinct yellow bands ; feet and fore legs brown : wings pale 

 gray ; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; third and fourth longitudinal 

 veins including a spindle-shaped areolet, approaching near to each 

 other at the tip ; lower cross-vein nearly straight, slightly oblique, 

 parted by more than thrice its length from the middle cross-vein 

 and from the tip of the wing, and by less than half its length from 

 the hind border ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of 

 the wings 8 lines. 



Calobata ervthrocephala, Fahr. Syst. Anil. 260, 1. Wied. Auss. 

 Zweif. ii. 532, 1. 



a. Para. Presented by J. P. George Smith, Esq. 



b. Mexico. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



c. Brazil. 



Calobata apicalis (n. g. ?), n. s., fern. Fusca, capite ferrugineo 

 subtus Jlavo, thorace Jlavo quadrivittato, abdomine piceo-Jlavo, 

 palpis piceis, antennis nigris, setaflava basi apiceque picea, pedi- 

 bus fulvis, femoribus tibiisque apice tarsisque piceis, alis subfus- 

 cis ad contain obscurioribus. 



Body brown, slender : head and chest beset with some black 

 bristles : head ferruginous above, yellow beneath ; crown with a 

 broad pitchy stripe, adorned with white lustre ; sides of the face not 

 bristly ; epistoma not prominent : eyes red, oblong ; the facets ra- 

 ther large : sucker pale tawny, pitchy at the tip ; palpi pitchy : 

 feelers black, shorter than the head ; first and second joints very 

 short ; third joint conical, much longer than the first and the se- 

 cond ; bristle slender, pale yellow, clothed with very short hairs 

 along the whole length, pitchy at the base and at the tip, proceed- 

 ing from the tip of the third joint and nearly thrice its length : 

 chest adorned with two yellow stripes on the back and with a broad 

 yellow stripe on each side : abdomen dark tawny, partly pitchy, 

 nearly linear, pointed at the tip, longer and a little narrower than 

 the chest : legs dark tawny, rather long ; thighs rather broad, espe- 

 cially the hind pair ; feet and tips of the thighs and of the shanks 

 pitchy ; claws black ; foot-cushions pale tawny : wings pale brown, 

 dark brown along the fore borders ; wing-ribs yellow ; veins pitchy, 



