392 INSECTA SAUNDERBIANA. 
halteres yellow, with pitchy knobs. Length of the body 6 lines; of the 
wings 7% lines. 
East Indies. 
CaLoBaTA LEUCOMELAS. 
Purpureo-nigra; antenne testacee, articulo 30 supra nigro; thorax 
cinereo bivittatus ; abdomen chalybeum ; pedes nigro-picet, femoribus 
posticis albo fasciatis basi flavis, tarsis anticis et posticis albis ; ale 
subcineree. 
Purplish black, slender, head not longer than broad, testaceous above 
each feeler, silvery white along the eyes: mouth black; tip testaceous: 
feelers testaceous ; third joint black above and at the tip, conical, longer 
than the first and the second ; sixth black, pubescent: chest with two gray 
stripes: abdomen chalybeous, linear, about half the breadth and twice the 
length of the chest: legs pitchy black, long, slender ; hind-thighs pale 
yellow at the base, and with a white band at two-thirds of the length ; 
fore-feet and hind-feet snowy white: wings slightly grayish; veins black: 
halteres pale yellow, with pitchy knobs. Length of the body 6 lines; of 
the wings 9 lines. 
South America. 
CaLosaTa VARIPES, Fem. 
Nigra ; caput purpureo-nigrum ; antenne testacea, apice picee ; thorax 
cinereo bivittatus ; pectus cyaneum ; abdomen compressum, apice at- 
tenuatum, bast subtus testaceum ; femora posteriora basi fulva, postica 
albido fasciata ; tarsi anteriores albi; ale subfulve. 
Black: head purplish black, testaceous on each side above the feelers, 
silvery white by the eyes, not longer than broad: mouth pitchy: feelers 
testaceous ; third joint towards the tip and following joints pitchy ; third 
conical, longer than the first and the second: chest with two gray stripes: 
breast blue: abdomen compressed, tapering towards the tip, testaceous be- 
neath towards the base, nearly twice the length of the chest: legs black ; 
hinder thighs tawny for half the length from the base; hind-thighs with a 
broad yellowish white band a little before three-fourths of the length ; 
