NEW HOLLAND DIPTER A. 473 



Anthrax. — Fabricius. 



A. extensa. Mas. A. prasargentatae aspectu, obscure fusca, 

 pedibus alisque concoloribus. 



Obscure fusca, pubescens, subtus fulva : caput postice albidum, pilis 

 supra nigris antice fulvis hirtum: oculi rufo-eenei : os et antennae 

 nigra : thoracis abdominisque latera pilis fulvis hirta, hoc quoque 

 apicem versus et ille utrinque ante alas-pilis nigris hirta : pedes 

 nigro-fusci, pubescentes ; tarsi nigri : alee longae, angustae, obscure 

 fuscse, postice et apice dilutiores, antice et basi ferrugineae ; squa- 

 mulse nigra? ; nervi ferruginei, nonnulli nigri : halteres fulvi, ante 

 apices fusco cingulati. (Corp. long. 5| lin. ; alar. 13g lin.) 



Art. XL IV. — Transactions of the Entomological Society of 

 London. Vol. I. Part I. Seven Plates, Sixty-six Pages, 

 and an Appendix. London : Longman and Co. 1834. 



The first number of the Transactions of this thriving Society 

 has at length appeared, and contains papers by Messrs. Spence, 

 W. B. Spence, Hope, Lewis, Waterhouse, Westwood, W. 

 Christy jun., G. R. Gray, Shuckard, and Saunders : the whole 

 of these are valuable papers, and we think the Publishing 

 Committee have exercised great judgment in the selection. 

 Mr. Spence's paper is one of considerable interest, — we have 

 already given an outline of it, — but those by Messrs. Shuckard 

 and Waterhouse are of high entomological importance; we 

 should be proud to have them in our own pages. 



We rather regret that the Society has thought it necessary 

 to preface these Transactions with an attack upon ourselves, 

 indicative throughout of hostility. We do not pretend that we 

 were unacquainted with the existence of this feeling towards 

 us, but we had no hostile feeling, and we determined not to see 

 it in others. We hoped that our labours in behalf of the Society 

 would compel our enemies, in common decency, to treat us with 

 ostensible good will ; and now, even now, we will not abandon 

 a society because at present governed by our foes, — it may be 

 governed by our friends, — and the majority, nine out of every 

 ten, disapprove of this attack. This introductory portion of 

 the work is divided into two parts ; the principal object of the 

 first part is to combat Mr. Swainson's masterly and unanswer- 



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