IQOQ.] Records of the Indian Museum. 451 



from their inclusion by that author with other species proved to 

 be of Argyramasba, because degenera, if I have correctly identified 

 it, is the only one of his I have met with myself, 



ANTHRAX, Scop., 1763. 

 Ent. Cam., 358, 



1. leucostigma, Wulp, 1898, Termes. Fiizet., xxi, 419, nom. 



nov. for terminalis, Wulp, preoc. Wied. 

 _ , ■ . (1830), Auss. Zwei., ii, 639, for a Mexican 



species. 

 terminalis, Wulj), 1868, Tijd. Ent., xi, 108, 

 pi. iii, 12 (wing). 

 IvOC. — Halmaheira. Van der Wulp records two from Astrolabe 

 Bay, Papua. 



N.B. — This species should be easily recognised from all others 

 except satellitia, Wlk., by its nearly wholly dark brown wings. 



2. satellitia, Wlk., 1857, 1*^. I^inn. So. I^ond., i, 119, & . 

 IvOC. — Borneo. 



N.B. — Incorrectly spelt satellita in Van der Wulp 's Catalogue. 

 This should be easily distinguished from leucostigma by the black 

 spots on the clear part of the wing. 



3. afra, F., 1794, Ent. Sys., iv, 258. Sch. F. Aust, i, 50. 



fimhriatus, Mg. Klass. I, 205 ; Sys. Bes., ii, 154, 



pi. xvii, 13. 

 sirius, Hoffsg., in coll. ap. Meig. 

 afer , auct. 

 I^oc— East Indies [t. Macq.\ ; India and Burma ; Senegal 

 and New Holland. 



It is also a commonly distributed Pal^arctic species. 

 N.B.~1 have taken this species myself at Jubbulpore, 15-xi- 

 1907 ; Poona, 19— 27-xi-i907 ; Meerut, 25-iv-i905 ; Jhansi, i-iv- 

 1905 (all India). The Indian Museum possesses it from the base 

 of the Dawna Hills (Lower Burma), Puri (Orissa, India), 2-iii- 

 1908 ; Gonda District (United Provinces, India), 26-11-1907. The 

 Pusa collection has it from Allahabad, 5— 19- x- 1905 [Howleii] ; 

 Pusa, 23-V-1906 ; and Chapra (Bengal). 



4. maura, L., 1761, F. Suec, 1785 {Musca). 



N.B.— Two specimens, taken May or June 1893 at Naini Tal, 

 are in the Indian Museum (from the Lucknow Museum) and appear 

 to be this species, although showing a little variation in the wing 

 marking, the black colour being rounded off some distance before 

 the margin instead of attaining the posterior border in the 2nd 

 posterior cell, as in the normal form. The two abdominal cross- 

 bands are of a pale greyish white hair instead of yellowish, the 

 cross-veins do not show any clear space or yellowish colour, the 

 black colour being unbroken except for a nearly clear spot in the 

 upper corner of the 2nd basal cell. 



