272 LIST OF D1PTEEA. 



bands, one in the middle, the other at the tip of the wing: the 

 brown at the base is blackish on the fore border, but becomes paler 

 and lastly gray towards the hind border ; the first colourless band is 

 more or less tawny adjoining the fore border ; the brown between 

 it and the second colourless band is very irregular towards the tip of 

 the wing, the disks of its areolets are there nearly colourless, and its 

 outskirts are confined to the borders of the veins ; squamulae fringed 

 with bright yellow hairs ; wing-ribs and veins piceous, the latter 

 black towards the tips ; poise rs ferruginous. Length of the body 

 5 — 6| lines ; of the wings 15 — 19 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



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



Anthrax plana, n. s., mas. Picea, tkorace cano trivittato scutello 

 abdomineque ferrugineis. 



Body piceous : head clothed with black hairs in front, ferrugi- 

 nous about the mouth : sucker and feelers black : chest with three 

 hoary stripes, clothed with tawny hairs, and adorned on each side 

 with a tuft of dark red hairs in front, and of pale yellow hairs with 

 a few red ones behind, and having also some white hairs about the 

 base of the wings : scutcheon ferruginous : abdomen ferruginous, 

 with a tuft of white hairs on each side at the base, black along the 

 fore borders of the segments, which have each a band of white hairs ; 

 their sides are adorned with alternate tufts of black and white hair, 

 and there is a double row of these tufts on the under-side ; legs pi- 

 ceous, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; thighs clothed beneath 

 with tawny hairs, and having also some white hairs : wings gray, 

 white at the tips, brown at the base and along the fore borders for 

 more than three-fourths of the length, and for somewhat less than 

 half the breadth ; a white interval between the brown and the gray ; 

 the hind border of the brown part is rather concave, and it is oblique 

 towards the tip ; on the veins of the gray part there are four brown 

 spots and two paler brown streaks, the latter approaching the hind 

 border of the wing ; wing-ribs and veins piceous, the latter darker 

 towards the tips ; poisers tawny, with yellow knobs. Fern. — Differs 

 from the male in the following characters. Head larger, hoary, fer- 

 ruginous in front, thickly clothed with tawny hairs about the mouth 

 and the feelers, which latter are thickly beset with black bristles at 

 the base : sides of the chest ferruginous : breast (like that of the 

 male) ferruginous, with a hoary bloom : legs somewhat paler ; thighs 

 ferruginous beneath : the gray of the wing is darker, and the white 

 between it and the brown is thereby more clearly defined. Length 

 of the body 6 — 7 lines ; of the wings 17 — 20 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



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



