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and along the fore border; veins black, tawny towards the base; lower 

 cross-vein clouded with brown, with two curves, the lower inward and deep, 

 the upper outward and very slight : alulae white, with pale tawny borders : 

 halteres pale tawny. Length of the body 3^ — 4 lines ; of the wings 8 — 9 

 lines. 



Var. B. Lower cross-vein not clouded ; its inward curve not deeper 

 than the other. 



Var. -y. First and second joints of the feelers red; third red at the 

 base: lower cross-vein not clouded, its inward curve not deep. 



Var. S. Lower cross-vein with a very indistinct outward curve at each 

 end, and a distinct inward curve in the middle. 



New South Wales. 



Anthomvia Indica, Fem. 



Nigra, cinereo-tomentosa ; palpi nigri ; antentuB picece, hasi fulva: ; 

 thorax nigra quadrivittatus, scutello fulvo ; abdomen basi fulvum ; 

 pedes fulvi ; alee cinerece, casta venisque fulvo inarginatis. 



Black, with a cinereous covering ; frontalia deep black, broad, linear ; 

 facialia without bristles: epistoma not prominent: palpi black: feelers 

 pitchy ; first and second joints tawny ; third linear, rounded at the tip, 

 reaching the epistoma, more than twice the length of the second ; sixth 

 feathered with long hairs, tawny towards the base, twice the length of the 

 third : chest with four short and interrupted black stripes ; scutcheon tawny ; 

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

 towards the base : legs tawny : ivings gray, tawny beneath the fore border 

 and along the borders of the veins ; veins tawny ; fifth vein slightly bent 

 near the tip; lower cross-vein bent inward and almost angular at one-third 

 of the length from the base : aliilaG gray with tawny borders : halteres 

 tawny. Length of the body 3^ lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



East Indies. 



