INSECTA SAUNDEKSIAN'A. 



Anthkax ducens, Fein. 



Niffro-cinerea, capite fulvo, thoracis lateribus scutello pectoreque rufis, 

 abdomine rufo litta lata nigra umato, antennis piceis basi rujis, pedi- 

 bus rufis, alis ferrugineo-cinereis, basifuscis ad costam rufis. 



Grayish black : head tawny with a hoary covering, thinly clothed 

 above with black hairs, thickly clothed in front with tawny hairs : sucker 

 ferruginous, pitchy towards the tip: first and second joints of the feelers 

 pale red, clothed with black hairs ; third pitchy : breast, sides of the chest 

 and scutcheon red, the former with a hoary tinge : abdomen red, obconical, 

 a little longer and broader than the chest; a broad black stripe on the 

 back, tapering like the chest from the base towards the tip which it does 

 not attain, its sides are angular or project along the borders of the seg- 

 ments : legs pale red : icings gray, dark ferruginous ivhen viewed horizontally, 

 dark broum at the base, reddish along the fore border; wing-ribs and veins 

 dark red, some of the latter pitchy; poisers tawny with pitchy knobs. 

 Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 26 lines. 



New South Wales. 



Anthrax obscuka, Saunders MSS., Fern. 



Nigra, nigro-hirta., thoracis lateribus albo-pilosis, abdominis maculis late- 

 ralibus ventreque rufis, antennis nigris, pedibus rufis, alis cinereis ad 

 costam fuscis disco albidis fuscoque quadrimaculatis. 



Black, thinly clothed with black hairs and bristles : chest adorned on 

 each side with a fringe of whitish hairs : abdomen elliptical, longer than 

 the chest, clothed on each side with whitish hairs ; hind borders of the 

 segments on each side above and underside dull red : legs pale red, beset 

 with black bristles ; feet darker : wings pale gray, dark brown along the 

 fore border from the base to the tip ; the outline of the brown is irregular, 

 and includes a colourless spot near the tip, it does not occupy half the breadth 

 of the icing and is divided from the gray part by a ivhite irregular streak ; 

 the latter contains four brou-n spots ivhich occupy the cross-veins, the spot 

 nearest the base is in connexion with the brown of the fore border ; wing- 

 rilts ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base. Length of the body 

 4^ lines ; of the wings l'2 lines. 



Van Dicmen's Land. 



