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501. Anthrax limpida, Walk. 



Anthrax limpida, Walker, Ins. Saund., Dipt. pt. 3, p. 179 (1852). 



" Black ; head clothed above with short tawny, and longer black 

 hairs, beneath with longer tawny hairs ; chest clothed with bright 

 tawny hairs ; abdomen slightly obconical, somowhat truncated at 

 the tip, shorter than the chest, clothed with pale tawny hairs ; 

 legs clothed with short black hairs ; wings colourless, with a very 

 narrow brown stripe along the fore border for more than two- 

 thirds of the length ; wing-ribs pitchy, veins black, pitchy at the 

 base and along the fore border ; poisers pale yellow. Length 

 5 lines, wings 12 lines. East India." ( Walker.) 



Type in the British Museum. 



202. Anthrax referens, Walk. 



Anthrax referens, Walker, Ins. Saund., Dipt, pt. 3, p. 189 (1852). 



'' 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 grey, clothed 

 with ferruginous hairs. Abdomen obcouical, much shorter than 

 chest, adorned towards the tip with two interrupted bands of 

 white hairs ; base clothed with pale tawny hairs ; hind borders 

 of segments clothed with short ferruginous hairs ; sides adorned 

 with alternate tufts of black and white hairs ; underside ferru- 

 ginous; 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 end of the interior part ; this brown part 

 includes a nearly colourless dot, and its outline has two deep and 

 irregular inward curves ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers 

 pitchy, with pale yellow tips. Length of body 4-41 li nes , wings 

 11-12 lines. East India." (Walker.) 



Type in the British Museum. 



Subfamily LOMATIIN.E. 



Praefurca ending, that is to say, 2nd and 3rd veins separating, 

 nearly opposite base of discal cell. Antennae more or less approxi- 

 mate at base ; proboscis usually short, sometimes porrect ; abdomen 

 rather oblong, but not cylindrical. Head hardly transverse, closely 

 applied to thorax; face generally produced ; eyes in c? approximate 

 or contiguous, wide apart in $ ; occiput generally puffed out. 

 Thorax not humped, with few or no bristles ; scutellum large, 

 without strong bristles. Abdomen longer than broad, geuerallv 

 oblong, without bristles. Legs with few or no bristles, except 

 -epicules on tibiae. Wings with 2nd vein and upper branch of 3rd 

 strongly looped, more or less parallel to each other towards tips ; 

 .anterior cross-vein placed considerably beyond middle of discal 



