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Avith black bristles ; latter also with a fringe of yellowish scales, 

 wliich become white at their tips ; 7th segment covered with 

 yellowish scales and black bristles, hind border with a dense 

 fringe of long snow-white scales ; venter black, wholly covered 

 with small pale yellowish scales. Legs black ; femora and tibiae 

 covered with yellowish scales, middle tibise brownish yellow ; 

 tarsi black, joints distinct. Winr/s qnite clear, vitreons, subcostal 

 cell brownish yellow ; base of 3rd posterior cell more sinuous 

 than in eompacta ; lialteres clialk-white. 



LengtJi, 9 mm. 



One specimen (? $ ) in the British Museum from Dehra Dun,^ 

 "Western Himalayas, 1907 {Lt.-CoL Wyville Thomson). 



Genus ANTHRAX, Scoi^. 



Anthrax, Scopoli, Eiit. Carn. p. .058 (17G3) ; Brunetti, llec. Ind. 



Mus. ii, pp. 451, 455 (1909). 

 Villa, Lioy, Atti Istit. Yeiieto, (3) ix, p. 732 (1864). 

 Hemipenthes. Loew, Berl. Ent. Zeits. xiii, p. 28, note (1869). 

 Dipalta, Osten-Sacken, Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. iii, p. 236 (1877). 

 Chrysanthrax, Osten-Sacken, Biol. Cent.-Amer., Dipt, i, p. 121 



(1886). 

 Isiipenthes, 0.^ten-Sacken, op. cit. pp. 80, 96. 

 Pcccikmthra.v, Osteu-Sacken, op. cit. p, 119. 

 Stonyx, Osten-SackeUj op. cit. pp. 80, 94. 

 Jliyridanthrax , Osten-Sacken, 02). cit. p. 123. 

 Hyalanthrax, Osten-Sacken, op. cit. p. 134 (1877). 

 Aspiloj}fcra, Kiinckel, Bull. Sci. France at Belg. xxxix, p. 145, note 



(19U5). 

 ? Paranthrax, Bigot, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, (5) vi, p. Ixvi (1876). 



Genotype, AntJirax morio, E. ; by Eondani's designation. 



Head semicircular, inflated behind, but slightly inarched at the 

 middle, as broad as or a little broader than thorax ; face very 

 short, sometimes conically projecting or gently convex ; pi'oboscis 

 short, withdrawn into the large mouth-opening, labelJa rather 

 broad ; palpi small, thin, cylindrical, apparently one-jointed ; thre« 

 ocelli; eyes in both sexes wide apart ; frons rather narrower in 

 S , an indentation at middle of hind margin in both sexes. 

 Antennae porrect, short, wide apart at base ; 1st joint short, 

 cylindrical; 2nd cup-shaped; 3rd varying from elongate conical 

 to flattened onion-shaped, with an apical microscopic bristle, 

 never with an apical pencil of hairs. Tliorax quadrate, with 

 rounded angles, broadest behind, wdth indistinct prsesutural but 

 distinct postalar bristles. Scutellum broad, short, bare of bristles ; 

 metanotum concealed. Abdomen flat, oblong, longer than thorax, 

 7-segmeuted. Genitalia small, mainly concealed, placed asym- 

 metrically ; ovipositor with a circlet of short blunt spines. Leys 

 moderatel}^ long, hind pair lengthened and often bearing con- 

 spicuous scaly pubescence ; all femora and tibiae with short 

 scaly pubescence in some species ; fore tibiae sometimes quite 

 bare, sometimes with small spicules ; posterior tibiae with 



