182 INSECTA SAUNDERSTANA. 



Anthrax pellucida, Fem. 



Nigo-a, angusta,Jlavo-hirta, abdominis lateribus albo nigroque fasciculatis, 

 antennis pedibusque nigris, alis limpidis longis angustis basi et ad 

 costam fuscis. 



Black, nanow, linear : bead clothed with black or pale yellow hairs, 

 the former chiefly above, the latter in front: chest, breast and abdomen 

 clothed with pale yellow hairs : abdomen hardly longer than the chest, 

 very slightly decreasing in breadth from the base to the tip which is trun- 

 cated ; side adorned with alternate tufts of black and white hairs : legs 

 clothed with very short black hairs ; claws ferruginous with black tips : 

 wings colourless, long and narrow, dark brown at the base and along three- 

 fourths of the length of the fore border ; wing-ribs and veins black ; scales 

 pale tawny ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 3^—4 lines ; of the wings 

 10—11 lines. 



Van Diemen's Land. 



Anthrax translata, Fem. 



Nigra, ftilvo-hirta, pedibus nigris, alis suhcinereis basi et ad costam 

 fuscis. 

 Head wanting. Black, rather broad, thickly clothed with tawny 

 hairs: abdomen obconical, rather longer and broader than the chest: legs 

 clothed with short black hairs : wings slightly tinged ivith gray, dark brown 

 at the base and along three-fourths of the fore border ; wing-ribs pitchy ; 

 veins black, partly pitchy, clouded with pale brown. Length of the body 

 5 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



West Indies. 



Anthrax ai,bo-fulva, Mas. 



Nigro-cinerea, pectore ventreque canis, abdominis segmentorum marginibns 

 posticisfulvis, antennis basi pedihisque fulvis, alis limpidis. 



Black, tinged with gray, clothed with short tawny hairs : head covered 

 with a tawny hue, clothed with short whitish hairs : first and second joints 

 of the feelers tawny : breast and underside of the abdomen hoary, clothed 



