liairs ; disk of the chest mostly black : abdomen obconical, a little broader 

 but hardly shorter than the chest, 2)aler beneath, adorned above with silvery 

 white hairs which form a very large triangular spot on each side of the 

 base, a small spot on each side of the middle, and a row of small tufts along 

 the back : legs ferruginous, armed with black spines : tvings colourless, 

 adorned with three dark brown bands which are partli/ ferruginous ; these are 

 united on the fore border, and contain sotnc colourless dots and on the hind 

 border some colourless angles ; shoulders adorned with silvery white hairs ; 

 wing-ribs and veins black, the latter ferruginous along the fore 1)order and 

 in the brown parts of the wing ; poisers black with white tijts. Length of 

 the body 5 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



California. 



Akthrax cakbonaiua, Fem. 



Nigra, nigro-hirta, capite subtu-s cano, pcdibus nigris tibiis posticiif longis 

 validis subarcuatis, alisfuscis basi et ad coslam ohscurioribns. 



Elliptical, black, rather broad, clothed with short black hairs : head 

 lioary beneath, clothed in front with hoary hairs : abdomen obconical, a 

 little shorter and broader than the chest : hind-shanks rather long and 

 stout, slightly curved : xvings brown, dark at the base and along the fore bor- 

 der ; a stump on the angle of the hinder vein of the second marginal areo- 

 lel ; wing-ri])s, veins, and poisers black. Length of the body 8 lines : of the 

 wings 20 lines. 



East India. 



Anthrax vonifera, Mas. 



Nigra, iiigro-hirta, capite antico cinereo, abdomine albo-hirto segmentorion 

 rnarginibus posticis subferrugineis, antennis pedibnsi/ue piceis, alis 

 stibcinereis basi et ad coslam fulvis. 



Black, elliptical, rather broad, thickly clothed with very short black 

 hairs : front of the head tinged with gray : mouth and feelers pitchy : ab- 

 domen obconical, a little shorter and broader than the chest ; hind borders 

 of the segments slightly fenuginous, clothed towards the ti]) with some 

 white hairs : legs pitchy, clothed with very short lilack hairs : wings very 

 slightlg tinged with grag, bright tawngal the base and along the fore border ; 



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