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tawny, partly pitchy above. Length of the body 3^ — 4 lines ; of the wings 

 10—11 lines. 



South America. 



Var. ? or a distinct species. Smaller : stripe of hairs on each side of 

 the abdomen shorter : legs pitchy. Length of the body 2^ lines ; of the 

 wings 7 lines. 



Columbia. 



Anthrax leucotelus, Fem. 



Atra, nigro-hirta, capite antico abdominisque apice albo-pilosis, antennis 

 pedibusque nigris, alls limpidis bast fuscis . 



Black, thickly clothed with black hairs : front of the head adorned 

 with short silvery hairs : sucker as long as the head : chest and abdomen 

 partly clothed with dark tawny hairs : abdomen a little longer than the 

 chest, deeply fringed with tufts of black hairs; (ip adorned with snow- 

 white hairs: legs beset with short black bristles: icings colourless, dark 

 brown for near half the length from the base, the brown extends further along 

 the fore border than along the hind border and its outline is rather concave ; 

 wing-ribs and veins black. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 10 

 lines. 



Anthrax LATiFninuiA. 



Nigra, nigro-hirta, abdominis lateribus nigra fasciculatis, pedibus nigris, 

 alis limpidis, dimidio antico longitudinis bistriente nigro fuscis. 



Head wanting : black, clothed with black hairs : abdomen longer and 

 broader than the chest ; its sides deeply fringed with tufts of long black 

 hairs : legs clothed with short black hairs : wings colourlas, very dark brown 

 for two-thirds of the length from the base and for rather less than half the 

 breadth beneath the fore border ; wing-ribs and veins black. Length of 

 the body (» lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



Columbia. 



