INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



Anthrax onusta, Fem. 



Nigra, capite antico scutello abdominis hasi maculis ventreqtie ferrugineis, 

 ahdomine vittis quatuor interruptis alho-pilosis ornato, antennis fer- 

 rugineis, pedibus nigris, alls fuscis, apice subcinereis macula magna 

 fulva guttis subcinereis fulvisque fasciaque limpida ornatis. 



Black : head ferruginous and shining in front, gray behind : feelers 

 ferruginous; first joint stout, clothed with short black hairs; second very 

 short ; third tapering from the base to the tip, a little longer and much 

 narrower than the first ; fourth linear, very slender, about half the length 

 of the third joint -. chest clothed with tawny hairs ; sides and breast clothed 

 with white hairs ; a patch of ferruginous hairs on each side above the base 

 of the wings ; scutcheon ferruginous : abdomen oval, a little broader but 

 hardly longer than the chest, clothed with short black hairs, adorned with 

 a large ferruginous spot on each side of the base and with four more or less 

 interrupted bands of white hairs ; underside ferruginous for more than half 

 the length from the base: legs clothed with short black hairs: wings dark 

 broivn ; a large irregular tatony spot near the base, begond this are a few pale 

 gray and tawny dots ; these are succeeded by a slightly oblique colourless 

 band widening totvards the fore border which it does not attain ; tips pale 

 gray ; wing-ribs and veins black, the latter tawny in the pale parts of the 

 wing towards the base ; poisers pitchy with yellow knobs. Length of the 

 body 8i lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



Nicopolis ? 



Anthrax semilucida, Fem. 



Nigra, scutello ferrugineo, abdomine fasciis Jl.avo-pilosis ornato, antennis 

 nigris basi ferrugineis, pedibus nigris, alls subcinereis basi et ad 

 costamfulvis. 



Black : head gray above, hoary beneath, clothed in front and beneath 

 with tawny hairs : feelers black, dark ferruginous at the base ; first joint 

 short, hardly twice the length of the second ; third slightly tapering from 

 the base to the tip, about thrice the length of the first ; fourth slender, 

 linear, not more than one-fourth of the length of the third : chest and breast 

 clothed with tawny hairs ; scutcheon dark ferruginous : abdomen slightly 

 ohconical, a little broader but not longer than the chest; each segment 



