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Anthrax patula, n. s., mas. et fem. Picea, thoracis lateribus scu- 

 tello pectore abdomineque ferrugineis, pedibus nigris, fem. tibiis 

 piceis, alis cinereis,fusco-vittatis et quadrimaculatis, apice et dis- 

 co limpidis, basi costaque fuscis, alboque unimaculatis. 



Head wanting : chest piceous, clothed with hoary hairs, and 

 having along the fore border a band of tawny hairs, with which 

 some black hairs are mingled : sides of the chest and scutcheon fer- 

 ruginous : breast ferruginous, covered with a hoary bloom, and 

 thiuly clothed with white hairs : abdomen like that of A. plana, 

 thinly clothed on the back with black hairs, and that of the male 

 having a broad and thick band of pale yellow hairs at the base : 

 legs black, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; shanks of the fe- 

 male piceous: wings gray, brown at the base and along the fore- 

 borders for more than three-fourths of the length, and for full one- 

 third of the breadth, colourless at the tips, and for a space between 

 the gray and the brown ; there is a small white spot on the outskirt 

 of the brown at one-third of the length of the wing : the gray part 

 is indistinctly clouded with pale irregular brown streaks, and on its 

 veins there are four darker brown spots, two of them very small ; 

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

 poisers tawny, with yellow tips. Length of the body 6 — 7 lines ; of 

 the wings 18 — 19 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by Capt. Gray. 



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



Corsomyza, Wiedemann. 



Corsomyza clavicornis, Wied. Auss. Zweif. i. 329, 4. Jenson, 

 Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. iv. 332. Mulio clavicornis, Wied. 

 Zool.Mag. iii. 12, 16. 



a. Cape. From Mr. Walker's collection. 



Bombylius, Linn. 



* Cross-veins along the hind border of the wing forming an inter- 

 rupted line. 



f Discoidal areolet closed. 



A. The little cross-vein at three-fifths of the length of the discoidal 

 areolet. 



Bombylius orientalis, Macq. Dipt. Exot. ii. 90, 9, pi. 6,*f 2. 



a. North India. From Mr. L. James's collection. 



b. North Bengal. From Miss Campbell's collection. 



