DIPTKRA. ] 8 I 



than the chest, ferruginous and adorned with a patch of white liairs ou each 

 side of the base ; underside ferruginous except tlie middle part which is 

 pitchy and adorned with white hairs: legs tawny, clothed with very short 

 black bristles ; feet pitchy ; claws black, tawny at the base : wings colour- 

 less, tawni/ at tlie base and along half the length of the fore border ; shoulders 

 beset with black bristles ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins pitchy, tawny at the base 

 and along the fore border ; scales tawny ; poisers yellow, l^cngth of the 

 body 5 lines ; of the wings II lines. 



Cape. 



Anthuax detecta, Fern. 



Nigra, angusta, Jlavo-hirta, thoracis laleribus alba nigroque fasciculatis, 

 antennis pedibusque nigris, femoribus posierioribus basi fulvis, alis 

 limpidis basi et costce triente fulvis. 



Black, narrow : head clothed with silvery white hairs : chest and 

 breast clothed with yellow hairs : abdomen linear, conical at the tip, a little 

 longer than the chest, clothed with yellow hairs, adorned on each side with 

 alternate tufts of black and white hairs-: legs clothed with short black hairs 

 and bristles ; four hinder thighs tawny towards the base : wings colourless, 

 tawny at the base and along one-third of the fore border ; shoulders adorned 

 with pale yellow hairs ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy at the base 

 and along the fore border ; scales tawny ; poisers yellow. Length of the 

 body 4 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



South America. 



Anthkax vitrea, Fem. 



Nigra, angusta, fulvo-hirla, antennis pedibusque nigris, tibiis piceis, alis 

 limpidis basi fulvis. 



Black, narrow, clothed with tawny hairs : sucker pitchy : abdomen ob ■ 

 conical, a little shorter than the chest: shanks pitchy: wings colourless with 

 a slight tawny tinge at the base ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy at 

 the base and along the fore border ; poisers pitchy with yellow knobs. 

 Length of the body 2f lines; of the wings 6 lines. 



West Australia. 



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