188 TNSRCTA SAUNDERSIAKA. 



Anthrax reperta, Fem. 



Nigro-fusca, nigro-pilosa, pectore cinereo, abdominis apice albo fascicu- 

 lato, antennis niyris, pedibus piceis, alts fuscis apicem versus oblique 

 limpidis. 



Slender, tingetl with dark brown, clothed with short black hairs : head 

 clothed behind with dark tawny hairs : feelers black : breast gray : abdo- 

 men nearly elliptical, a little broader and longer than the chest; sides 

 adorned with a tuft of white hairs at the base and with white hairs towards 

 the tip : legs pitchy, clothed with very short black hairs and bristles : wings 

 rather long and narrow, dark brown on much more than half the surface 

 from the base, colourless thence to the tips, the outline of this broivn is nearly 

 straight along the hinder half, and irregular with three angles along the fore 

 half; it extends from five-sixths of the fore border to one-third, of the hind 

 border and is thus very oblique ; wing-ribs and veins pitchy, poisers pitchy 

 with pale tawny tips. Length of the body 3j lines ; of the wings 10 

 lines. 



South America. 



Anthrax excisa, Mas. 



Nigra, nigro-hirta, antennis nigris, pedibus piccis tarsis nigris, alis apicem 

 versus oblique et undatim limpidis. 



Black, thickly clothed with rather long black hairs: mouth pitchy : 

 abdomen nearly elliptical, hardly longer than the chest : legs pitchy, clothed 

 with short black hairs and bristles ; feet black : ivings very dark rich broum 

 on more than half the surface from the base, the outline of this broum is 

 slightly irregular for one-third of the length from the fore border and has a 

 deep inward curve from thence to the hind border, it extends from four-fifths 

 of the fore border to beyond one-third of the hind border ; tips bright tvhite ; 

 wing-ribs, veins and poisers black. Length of the body 4i lines ; of the 

 wings 12 lines. 



South America. 



