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pale brown, with silvery snow-white scales, and more numerous 

 short, black, spiny bristles ; tarsi brown, with scattered small white 

 scales, tips of each joint blackish, claws black. 



Wings. — Clear, at the base of the costa a bunch of snow- 

 white scales with some black bristles intermixed. A very small 

 pale brown suffusion at the base of the third vein and on the dis- 

 cal cross-vein ; mediastinal and marginal veins brown, also the 

 narrow intervening space. A strong appendix at the base of the 

 second vein and at the base of the fork of the third vein ; discal 

 cell rather long ; second posterior cell two-and-a-half times as wide 

 on wing-border as at base. Halteres pale brown, club much lighter. 

 Tegulse whitish, nearly transparent, with a fringe of very short 

 white hairs. 



Described from two specimens in the Indian Museum collec- 

 tion from Baluchistan (one headless, otherwise in fair condition). 



N.B. — I thought this might be nivea of Ross or perhaps 

 Griffini's var, lioyi, but no mention is made by them of the scales 

 with which it is covered, moreover the other differences are suffi- 

 cient to warrant regarding my species as quite distinct. 



Anthrax clara, Wlk. 



Redescription.- 



o?- (?). lyong. II mm. 



Head. — Frons widens rapidly from the narrow vertex, and is 

 covered with black bristles, which are thick and long round base 

 of antennae. Face widest just below antennae, rather less than 

 one-third of the head, with thick yellow bristly hair and a row of 

 black ones along upper part of mouth-border. Mouth and pro- 

 boscis black. Antennae black, first joint with a linear row of strong 

 black bristles on the outer and inner sides. Back of head blackish 

 grey ; below shining black, bare. 



Thorax. — Black ; dorsum with some rather thinly scattered, 

 soft, black hair : entire anterior part, above and below, and the 

 shoulders, with thick rich yellow hair. Under side cinereous, with 

 sparse paler yellow hair. Scutellum (denuded) black, smooth, with 

 traces of black or grey hair. 



Abdomen. — I^inear, tip rather blunted, as broad as thorax 

 (Walker says " obconical "), b^ack, with dorsum ( ? denuded) 

 nearly bare. The sides with thick rich yellow hair, containing a 

 tuft of black haii-s on each side towards the tip. Belly black, 

 with sparse yellow hair, which has a tendency to form transverse 

 bands. 



Legs. — Black. Femora with a little short yellow hair below 

 middle pair, and on upper side of hind pair ; tibiae with short 

 black bristles, which, on the hind pair, are mixed with short linear 

 black scales. 



