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bristles, middle pair with a similar row on both outer and inner 

 sides, and hind pair rather thickly clothed with them. Win(/s 

 clear; anal cell closed immediately before the border; discal 

 cross-vein placed just beyoud one-third of the discal cell ; first 

 posterior cell widely open ; fork of the third vein showing a ten- 

 dency to form an appendix; halteres cream-white; tegulae small, 

 dirty white, transparent, with a fringe of short grey hairs. 



Length, Sk n)m. 



Described from a unique S in the Indian Museum from Moul- 

 lueiii, Lower Burma, iii. 1908 [Annandale). 



The only species described from the East with the anal cell 

 closed. 



The following species have been recorded from " East India," 

 but may be I'egarded as requiring further confirmation. They are 

 therefore not included in the table of species : — 



199. Anthrax troglodyta, F. 



Bibio trof/lodi/ta, Fabi'icius, Syst. Ent. p. 759 (1775). 



A)7tkrax trof/ludi/ta, Wiedemann, Auss. Zweifl. i, p. 306 (1828) ; 



Wulp, Notes Levd. Mas. vii, p. 83 (1885); de Meijere, Tijd. v. 



Ent. 1, p. 240(1907). 

 Anthrax hyalina, Wiedemann, Dipt. Exot. i, p. 141 (1821) ; id., 



Auss. ZweiH. i, p. 297 (1828) ; Wulp, Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii, p. 165 



(1889). 

 Anthrax lucens, Walker, Ins. Saund., Dipt. pt. 3, p. 180 (1852). 



" Black, head tawny beneath : chest and breast clothed with 

 tawny hairs ; a tuft of wliite bail's on each side above the base of 

 the wing ; abdomen obconical, a little shorter than the chest, 

 clothed on each side with alternate patches of black and white 

 liairs : legs clothed with very short black hairs. Wings colourless, 

 dark brown at the base, adorned (Ui each shoulder with a patch of 

 silvery-white hairs ; wing-ribs and veins black. Length 4^ lines, 

 wings 12 lines. East India." {Walker.) 



Type in Fabricius's collection. 



The above is W^alker's description of lucens, which is said to be 

 identical with troglodyta. 



200. Anthrax lucida. Walk. 



Anthrax Incida, Walker, Ins. Saund., Dipt. pt. 3, p. 179 (1852). 



" 5 . Black ; thickly clothed with bright tawny hairs ; head 

 clothed above with black hairs ; abdomen nearl}'' linear, truncated 

 at the tip, hardly shorter than the chest ; tip clothed with black 

 hairs and adorned on each side with a tuft of yellowish-white 

 hairs ; wings colourless, brown along the fore boi'der for two- 

 thirds of the length; wing-ribs and veins black, the latter pitchy 

 beneath the fore border ; poisers yellow. The brown on the wing 

 of this species is much narrower than that of A. manifesta. 

 Length 6 lines, wings 14 lines. East India." {Walker.) 



Tgpe in the British Museum. 



