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variable in size and in shape ; two of them are near together to- 

 wards the base of the wing ; beyond these there is another, which is 

 larger ; the fourth and the fifth are alongside of each other, and 

 nearer to the tip of the wing ; wing-ribs and veins piceous, the lat- 

 ter black towards the tips ; poisers tawny, with yellow knobs. 

 Length of the body 2\ — 4 lines ; of the wings 7 — 10 lines. 



a. Van Dieman's Land. Presented by the Eev. T. Ewing. 



Anthrax sobria, n. s. Picea, capite cano, scutello ferrugineo, abdo- 

 mine subtus ferrugineo fasciis fulvis, antennis nigris, pedibus 

 ferrugineis, femoribus tibiis tarsisque apice nigris, alis cinereis, 

 basi costaque fuscis. 



Body piceous : head hoary, thickly clothed with black hairs 

 above the feelers and with pale yellow hairs in front : feelers black : 

 mouth dark ferruginous : eyes red : chest clothed with tawny hairs, 

 which are paler and thicker on each side : breast ferruginous, with 

 a hoary bloom, and clothed with white hairs : abdomen thinly 

 clothed with tawny black and whitish hairs, the latter mostly on the 

 sides ; under-side ferruginous, its segments with tawny hind borders : 

 legs ferruginous, clothed with black hairs ; tips of the thighs, of the 

 shanks and of the feet black : wings gray, long and narrow, brown 

 at the base and along the fore borders for four-fifths of the length, 

 where the brown blends with the gray ; wing-ribs and fore border 

 veins piceous, the other veins black ; poisers tawny. Length of the 

 body 7 lines; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by J. Hunter, Esq. 



Anthrax extensa, Walker, Ent. Mag. ii. 473. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



b. Western Australia. From Mr. Clifton's collection. 



Anthrax corculum. Neuria corculum, Newman, Entomol. 221. 



a. New Holland. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



b. New Holland. 



Anthrax dorsalis, n. s., mas. Ferrugineq, capite necnon thoracis 

 abdominisque discis nigris, thorace pitis flavis utrinque vittato, 

 antennis nigris, pedibus ferrugineis, alis cinereis, basi costaque 

 fuscis. 



Body ferruginous : head black, clothed with tawny hairs in 

 front, and with black hairs on the crown and about the base of the 

 feelers, which, like the sucker, are black : eyes red : lip pale yellow : 

 lancets ferruginous: disk of the chest and that of the abdomen 

 black ; chest clothed with pale red hairs, and having a stripe of pale 



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