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Anthrax cognata, Mas. 



Nigra, thoracis ahdominisque basi lateribus fulvo-pilosi;, anlennis nigris, 

 pedibus piceis, tibiis ferrugincis, alls fiiscis cinereo-variis limpido 

 quinque-maculatis. 



Black: head beset with black bristles, clothed iu front with tawny hairs : 

 sides of the chest clothed with pale tawny hairs ; front beset with a fringe 

 of black bristles : abdomen as long as the chest, hardly decreasing in 

 breadth from the base to the tip, clothed on each side of the base with pale 

 tawny hairs : legs pitchy, beset with short black bristles ; shanks ferrugi- 

 nous : wings dark broim, grtuj on the disks of the areolets and on the whole 

 of the hind border excepting the borders of the veins ; three colourless spots 

 form a line on the disk arid there are tioo more at the tip ; wing-ribs and 

 veins black ; poisers pitchy with tawny tips. Length of the body 4 lines ; 

 of the wings 12 lines. 



West Australia. 



Anthuax separata. 



Nigra, fcrrugineo-hirta, anlennis nigris basi ferrugincis, pedibus f aids, 

 tarsis piceis, alisfuscis ad apices oblique limpidis. 



Black, clothed with bright deep ferruginous hairs: sides of the peri- 

 stoma ferruginous ; epistoraa veiy prominent : first and second joints of the 

 feelers ferruginous, beset with short black bristles: breast clothed with 

 paler hairs : abdomen obconical, a little shorter than the chest : legs tawny, 

 beset with short black bristles ; feet pitchy : wings colourless, dark brown 

 on more than half the surface from the base ; the outline of the broivn is 

 oblique, nearly straight, and extends from beyond tivo-thirds of the fore bor- 

 der to much beyond one-third of the hind border ; wing-ribs and veins black ; 

 poisers pale tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



Bolton, North America. 



