in the Collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq. 143 



Black ; thorax with tawny hairs in front and along each side ; 

 abdomen with a broad pale gilded band ; tip silvery ; wings 

 slightly greyish, wholly brown at the base, and brown along the 

 costa for five-sixths of the length ; the outline of the brown 

 nearly straight, but rather undefined. 



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



China. 



Anthrax comb'inata. 



Nigra, capite subaurato, thoracis marginibus fulvo-pilosis, scu- 

 tello piceo, abdominis lateribus nigro-pilosis, fasciculis duobus 

 basalibus testaceis, fascia albida subaurala media, apice ar- 

 genteo, alis subcinereis, triente basali costaque fuscis. 

 Black ; head with pale and slightly gilded tomentum in front 

 and beneath ; thorax with tawny hairs in front and along each 

 side ; scutellum piceous ; abdomen with black hairs along each 

 side, with a tuft of testaceous hairs on each side at the base, and 

 with a whitish slightly gilded band across the middle ; tip silvery ; 

 wings slightly greyish, brown for one-third of the length from the 

 base, and for five-sixths of the length along the costa ; outline of 

 the brown part nearly straight, but somewhat undefined. 

 Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 

 China. 



AUSTRALIA. 



Eleven groups and about fifty species. 



Group 3. Dipt. Saund. 166. 



Anthrax albirufa. 



Nigra, thoracis lateribus pectoreque pilis rufescentibus, pectore 

 fascia interrupta alba, abdomine pilis basalibus, fascia in- 

 terrupta apice ventre que albis, lateribus nigro-pilosis, alis 

 subcinereis apud costam nigro-fuscis. 

 Black ; thorax with reddish hairs on each side and in front ; 

 pectus with reddish hairs, which are interrupted by a white band ; 

 abdomen with white hairs at the base, with an interrupted white 

 band hindward, and with a white tip ; sides with black hairs ; un- 

 derside with a white disk ; wings slightly greyish, blackish brown 

 along the costa for half the breadth and three-fourths of the length ; 

 hind border of the brown part dilated at the base and in the middle. 

 Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 

 Australia. 



