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Anthrax illata, Fem. 



Nif/ra, nigro-hirta, thoracis laterihus pilis Jlavis vitlatis, abdominis fasci- 

 culis basi fasciis duabus apiceque albo-hirtis, pedibus nigris, libiis 

 fulvis, alls fuscis fulvo ct cinereo guttatis, angulis duabus posticis 

 ineisis. 



Black, clothed with deep black hairs : head wanting : each side of the 

 chest adorned with a stripe of pale yellow hairs : breast tinged with brown : 

 abdomen slightly obconical, a little broader but not longer than the chest, 

 adorned with white hairs which form a tuft on each side of the base, two 

 bands on the back and one at the tip : legs armed with black spines ; 

 shanks dark tawny ; feet clothed with short black hairs : wings very dark 

 brown, adorned with some pale taivny and gray dots tvhich are chiejly on the 

 cross -veins ; a colourless dot on the fore border near the tip, and two large ir- 

 regularly-angular colourless intervals on the hind border, one a little beyond 

 the middle, the other extending to the tip ; wing-ribs and veins black ; pois- 

 crs pitchy with pale yellow tips. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 

 12 lines. 



Anthrax relata, Mas. 



Nigro-fusca, thoracis lateribus albo viltatis, abdomine albo bifasciato, an- 

 tennis nigris,pedibus piceis, tibiis fulvis, alis nigro-fuscis fulvo gut- 

 tatis apice margineque postice simmto-limpidis. 



Black: head gray behind, clothed with tawny hairs; crown clothed 

 with black hairs : chest clothed with black hairs, adorned on each side with 

 a stripe of white hairs ; scutcheon pitchy ; breast brown, clothed with tawny 

 hairs : abdomen very deep brown, obconical, a little longer than the chest, 

 clothed with black hairs which form a fringe on each side, adorned with 

 two bands of white hairs, one on the first, the other on the fourth segment ; 

 there are also some white hairs near the tip which is black ; underside 

 pitchy, clothed with tawny hairs : legs pitchy, armed with black spines ; 

 shanks and tips of thighs tawny, the former adorned with gilded scales ; 

 feet clothed with short black hairs : uings very dark brown, adorned with 

 some little tawny marks which are mostly (m the eruss-veins, colourless from 



