178 TMSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



Anthrax marginata, Saunders MSS., Mas et Fem. 



Nigra, fuho-hirta, abdominis apice nigro-piloso, antennis femorihusque 

 nigris, tibiis fulvis, tarsis piceis, alls limpidis basi et ad costam 

 fuscis. 



Black, thickly clothed with pale tawny haivs : crown of the head 

 clothed with black hairs : abdomen nearly linear, shorter than the chest, 

 thinly clothed with black hairs towards the tip which is truncated: legs 

 clothed with short black hairs ; thighs black with a tawny tinge ; shanks 

 dark tawny ; feet pitchy : wings colourless, brown at the base ; fore border 

 adorned with a broad broivn stripe which diminishes in breadth till a little 

 beyond three-fourths of the length, where it ceases ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins 

 black, pitchy at the base ; scales tawny with darker borders ; poisers yel- 

 low. In one wing of a specimen described there is an additional areolet 

 formed by a supernumerary little cross-vein in the disk of the wing. 

 Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



Van Diemen's Land. 



Anthbax manifesta, Fem. 



Nigra, fulvo-hirta, abdominis apice nigro-piloso, palpis nigris apice fulvis, 

 antennis pedib usque nigris, alis limpidis basi et ad costam fuscis. 



Black, thickly clothed with tawny hairs which are paler on each side 

 towards the tip of the abdomen and beneath : peristoma tawny : palpi with 

 tawny tips : abdomen linear, truncated at the tip, a little longer than the 

 chest, adorned on each side of the tip with a tuft of black hairs : legs 

 clothed with short black hairs : wings colourless, dark broivn at the base and 

 along the fore border till near the tip ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy 

 at the base and along the fore border ; scales tawny with darker borders ; 

 poisers yellow. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



East India. 



