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with five small blackish brown spots ; wing-ribs and veins piceous ; 

 poisers tawny. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 12 

 lines. 



• ? From Mr. Clifton's collection. 



Anthrax Punctum, n. s. Nigra, pilis albis nigrisque ornata, pedi- 

 bus nigrls, tibiis ferrugineis, alis limpidis fusco maculatis et bi- 

 fasciatis necnon maculis nonnullis limpidis. 



Head wanting : chest black, clothed on each side with a fringe 

 of mingled black and white hairs : abdomen black, its sides adorned 

 with black and white hairs, in which the latter colour prevails at the 

 base, and is succeeded by the former, which it replaces nearer the 

 tip where the hairs are again black : the legs are black ; the shanks 

 are ferruginous : the wings are dark tawny at the base, and to this 

 hue succeeds a brown space which contains several colourless dots 

 of various sizes, those along the fore border are arranged in order, 

 and have a regular subquadrate shape; then comes a colourless in- 

 terval which has a few brown spots interspersed ; next this is a 

 large brown patch, with a few colourless dots ; it does not reach the 

 hind border nor the tip, but these are adorned with brown spots of 

 various size ; fore border of the wing, especially at the base, fringed 

 with short stout black hairs ; veins piceous ; poisers brown, with 

 white tips. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Brazil. From Mrs. Noel's collection. 



Anthrax (Edipus, Fabr. Syst. Anil. 123, 22. Wied. Dipt. Exot. 



i. 124, 8. Auss. Zweif. i. 262, 12. Div. 2. A. irrorata, Say. 



Journ. Acad. Philad. 1822, 46, 6. 

 a. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Bedman's collection. 



Group VIII. 



Anthrax distigma, Wied. Auss. Zweif. i. 309, 74. Div. 5. Macq. 



Dipt. Exot. ii. 1, 58,9. 

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



Anthrax incompta, n. s. Nigra, fasciculis quatuor albis ornata, 

 abdomine apice niveo, pedibus nigris^ alis subcinereisjbasi cos- 

 taque nigro-fuscis maculisque tribus fuscis. 



Body black, covered with a gray bloom, and clothed with 

 black bristles and gray hairs : head wanting : a fringe of white 

 hairs on the fore border of the chest, and a tuft of the same on each 

 side of tbe base of the abdomen ; the latter has a fringe of brilliant 

 white hairs on each side towards its tip, which is also adorned with 



