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Anthrax fasciata, Fair, Syst. Antl. 118, 2. Wied. Auss. Zvjeif. i. 



321, 93. Neuria nigrescens, Newm. Entomologist, 221. 

 a. New Holland. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



Anthrax Stria, n. s. Nigra, capite cano, thoracis scutellique lateri- 

 bus, pectore, abdomineque subtus ferrugineis, abdomine fasciis 

 fulvis, antennis piceis, pedibus ferrugineis, tarsis piceis, alis 

 ferrugineis vittis sublimpidis apicem versus fusco alboque fasci- 

 atis. 



Body black, clothed with black and tawny hairs, among which 

 are mingled a few white hairs: head hoary behind and in front 

 along the eyes, above the insertion of the feelers, where it is thickly 

 clothed with black hairs ; front thickly clothed with bright tawny 

 hairs : feelers and mouth piceous : eyes dark red : breast and sides 

 of the chest ferruginous and covered with a hoary bloom ; sides of 

 the scutcheon also ferruginous : abdomen ferruginous beneath and 

 thinly clothed with yellow hairs ; hind borders of the segments pale 

 tawny : legs ferruginous ; feet piceous : wings ferruginous brown, 

 with a white band on each before the tips ; the areolets with almost 

 colourless streaks, which are most distinct along the hind borders, 

 but thence to the fore borders become successively more obsolete ; 

 wing-ribs and veins piceous, the latter black towards the tips ; 

 poisers tawny, with piceous tips. Length of the body 8 lines ; of 

 the wings 22 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by Dr. A. Sinclair. 



Anthrax basalis, n. s. Nigra, pectore cano, thoracis lateribus, scu- 

 tello, abdomineque subtus ferrugineis, abdomine fusco basi albo 

 vittato, antennis piceis, pedibus ferrugineis, alis fusco-cinereo 

 variis, apice albis. 



Body black : head hoary, beset with black bristles, which are 

 most thick about the insertion of the feelers, tawny and thickly 

 clothed with tawny hairs in front : mouth black, ferruginous at the 

 base : eyes and feelers piceous, the latter dark ferruginous at the 

 base : chest with a gray bloom, which is interrupted by three black 

 stripes, and clothed with tawny hairs, which are more thick on the 

 hoary breast; scutcheon and sides of the chest ferruginous : abdo- 

 men dull brown, thinly clothed with tawny hairs, with a white stripe 

 at the base, ferruginous beneath : legs dark ferruginous, clothed with 

 black hairs : wings brown, white at the tips, and having several pale 

 gray streaks in the areolets of the disks ; hind borders also mostly 

 pale gray ; wing-ribs and veins piceous, the latter black towards the 



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