172 INSKCTA SAUNBEESIANA. 



borders of the segments adorned with bands of yellow hairs ; hind borders 

 slightly ferruginous above, distinctly so beneath, which is clothed with hoary 

 hairs : legs clothed with short black hairs, armed with black spines ; shanks 

 dark tawny towards the base : ivings gray, bright taivny at the base beneath 

 the fore border and along the borders of most of the veins, adorned with eight 

 gray spots ivhich are mostly on the cross-veins ; there are also two paler and 

 indistinct gray spots towards the base ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous, 

 some of the latter black ; poisers tawny with yellow knobs. Length of the 

 body 4 J lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



East Indies. 



Anthrax insulata, Fem. 



Nigra, fulvo-hirta, abdominis lateribus albo nigroqne fasciculatis, ventre 



nigra hirto, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis nigro-fuscis apice sub- 



cinereis fascoque sex maculatis. 



Black, clothed with pale tawny hairs : head clothed above with short 



black hairs, beneath with whitish hairs : abdomen nearly linear, rounded 



at the tip, a little broader but not longer than the chest ; sides adorned 



with tufts of alternate black and pale tawny hairs; underside clothed with 



black hairs : legs clothed with short black hairs, armed with black spines : 



winqs dark brown with blackish spots from three-fourths of the fore border to 



one-third of the hind border, pale gray from thence to the tips and adorned 



with six broion spots ; three small and round, three large and irregular, and. 



one of them connected with the brown part ; wing-ribs and veins black ; 



scales pitchy with tawny knobs. Length of the body 4^ lines ; of the 



wings 12 lines. 



East Indies. 



Anthrax CALiFOHNia:, Fem. 



Ferruginea, thoracis disco nigra, abdomine maculis albo-hirtis ornato, an- 

 tennis pedibusque ferrugineis, alis limpidis ferrugineo-fusco trifasci- 

 atis, fasciis guttatis ad costam confluentibus. 

 Dark ferruginous, clothed with short black hairs; head red, clothed 

 with ferruginous hairs and with a few black hairs, black about the eyelets ; 

 epistoma prominent : feelers ferruginous, beset at the base with black 

 bristles, black towards the tips : chest and breast clothed with ferruginous 



