190 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 



Anthrax cedens, Fem. 



Nigra, nigro-hirta, alis nigro-fuscis apice Ihnpidis. 



Deep black, clothed with black hairs : abdomen obconical, not longer 

 than the chest : legs clothed with short black hairs and bristles : ivings very 

 dark brown ivith the exception of a narroiv stripe extending from the tip 

 along the hind border ; the outline of the brown is rather jagged and its limits 

 are from nine-tenths of the fore border to rather beyond half the length of the 

 hind border, it hardly includes a colourless streak which borders the cross- 

 vein of the first posterior areolet ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers black 

 with tawny tips. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines. 



United States. 



Anthrax divisa, Mas. 



Nigra, fulvo-hirta, pectore cinereo, abdominis lateribus basi ferrugineo- 

 pilosis apice argenteo-pilosis, pedibus piceis, femoribus ferrugineo 

 tectis, alisfuscis ad apices oblique sinuato-limpidis. 



Deep black, thickly clothed with short black hairs : head clothed with 

 short black hairs, in front with light tawny hairs, and behind with silvery 

 hairs : mouth pitchy : sides of the chest and of the breast thickly clothed 

 with bright tawny hairs : breast gray : abdomen slightly obconical, shorter 

 than the chest, adorned on each side of the base with bright ferruginous 

 hairs, and at the tip with silvery white hairs : legs pitchy, clothed with 

 very short black hairs and bristles ; thighs adorned with a ferruginous co- 

 vering : wings very dark rich brown on much more than half the surface 

 from the base ; the outline of this brown is oblique and extends from four- 

 fifths of the fore border to much beyond one-third of the hind border ; it has 

 tivo concave curves, the hind one extremely slight, the fore one deeper ; wing- 

 ribs and veins black ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 5^ lines ; of 

 the wings 12 lines. 



South America. 



