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Anthrax ueferens, Fein. 

 Nigra, capite -pectore abdominisque segmentorum marginibtis posticis fer- 

 rnginco-hirlis, thoracis laterihus albo-hirli.'!, abdominis basi fulvo- 

 hirto lateribiis alba nigroque fasciculalis, apice pilis albis interruple 

 bifasciato, ventre ferrugineo, antennis nigris, pedibus piceis, alls 

 fuscis margins postico angulisquc duabus limpidis. 



Black: head clothed with short ferruginous hairs and on the crown 

 with some black hairs : mouth pitchy : each side of the chest adorned with 

 a stripe of white hairs : breast gray, clothed with fermginous hairs : abdo- 

 men obconical, much shorter than the chest, adorned towards the tip with 

 two interrupted bands of while hairs ; base clothed with pale tawny hairs ; 

 hind borders of the segments clothed with short ferruginous hairs ; sides 

 adorned with alternate tufis of black and white hairs ; underside ferrugi- 

 nous : legs pitchy, clothed with very short black hairs and bristles ; thighs 

 and shanks adorned with a tawny tinge: wings dark brown from the base 

 along the fore border to the tip and along the hind border to the eiid of the 

 inferior part ; this brown part includes a nearly colourless dot, and its out- 

 line has two deep and irregular inward curves ; wing-ribs and veins black ; 

 poisers pitchy with pale yellow tips. Length of the body 4 — 4^ lines ; of 

 the wings 11 — 12 lines. 



East India. 



Anthrax constituta, Fem. 



Nigra, flavo-hirta, pectore cinereo, abdominis lateribns nigro fasciculatis, 

 pedibus nigris, alls nigris apice margineque postico limpidis. 



Head wanting. Black : chest clothed in front and on each side willi 

 yellow hairs : breast gray, clothed with whitish hairs : abdomen nearly 

 linear, clothed with yellow hairs, somewhat truncated at the tip ; sides 

 clothed with tufts of alternate black and yellow hairs : legs clothed with 

 short black hairs and bristles : wings very dark brown, colourless at the tips 

 and along most part of the hind borders ; the outline of the broivn is nearly 

 straight with the exception of a short space near the tip, tchere it projects into 

 the colourless part ; it extends from five-sixths of the fore border to one- 

 fourth of the hind bordei- ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers tawny. 

 Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 15 lines. 



South America. 



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