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DIPTHRA. 391 
Catopata Picea, Fem. 
Ferruginea, gracillima ; thorax nigro trivittatus ; abdomen atienualum 
apice nigrum ; pedes picei, fulvo et ferrugineo vari ; ale fusce, albo 
bifasciate, basi et postice cinerea. 
Ferruginous, very slender: head a little longer than broad; crown 
with a rather deep furrow: feelers short, third joint very short-conical, not 
longer than the second ; sixth pitchy, pubescent: chest with three black 
stripes: abdomen black and shining towards the tip, tapering from near 
the base unto the tip, much narrower than the chest and more than twice 
its length: legs pitchy, long, slender; fore-hips yellow; fore-thighs and 
fore-shanks ferruginous; fove-thighs towards the base and posterior hips 
tawny ; posterior thighs with two tawny bands: wings brown, pale gray 
towards the base and along the hind borders, with two short white bands 
towards the tips; veins black, tawny at the base. Length of the body 
5 lines; of the wings 9 lines. 
Van Dieman’s Land. 
CALOBATA BASALIS. 
Chalybea; caput purpureo-cyaneum, antice argenteum; antenne nigre ; 
abdomen nigro-fuscum, fasciis duabus chalybeis ; pedes antici nigri, 
tarsis apice albis ; pedes posteriores picei, femoribus fulvis piceo tri- 
fasciatis, femoribus posticis basi flavis ; ale sublimpida, sat breves, 
fusco trifasciate. 
Chalybeous, rather slender: head purplish blue, shining, hardly longer 
than broad, silvery white on each sidein front ; frontalia deep black, widen- 
ing from the eyelets to the feelers; face ferruginous : mouth black: feelers 
black ; third joint conical, ferruginous at the base, longer than the first 
and the second ; sixth pubescent, ferruginous at the base: abdomen blackish 
brown, tapering towards the tip, with two steel-blue bands near the base, 
much narrower than the chest and more than twice its length: legs long, 
slender ; fore-legs black; their feet white towards the tips: hinder legs 
pitchy ; their thighs tawny with three pitechy bands; hind-thighs yellow 
at the base: wings rather short, almost colourless, with three broad brown 
bands; first short; third at the tip; veins black, tawny at the base: 
