242 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Anthrax funesta, n. s., Div. I., Wied., mas. Cinerea, capite fer- 

 rugineo, abdornine nigro , pedibus nigris, alls cinereis, basi mar- 

 ginibusque anticis fulvis. 



Head ferruginous above and in front, hoary behind, and clothed 

 there with pale tawny or silvery down : eyes red : mouth and feelers 

 black; first joint of the latter ferruginous: chest gray, clothed with 

 tawny hairs, which are very thick in front and on each side ; it has 

 also a few long black bristles on each side above the base of the 

 wing: breast gray, clothed with yellowish white hairs: abdomen 

 black, clothed with black down, and having a fringe of short black 

 hairs along each side ; there is a thick tuft of shining yellowish white 

 hairs on each side of the base, which is traversed by a band of simi- 

 lar hairs ; this band is dilated on each side ; there are a few white 

 hairs on each side of the base of the third segment, and each of the 

 three last segments has a broad interrupted band of shining white 

 hairs ; on the under-side the abdomen is clothed with white hairs 

 from the base to the middle, and there is a broad band of the same 

 near the tip : legs black, thinly clothed with short black hairs : 

 wings deep gray, paler at the tips and along the hind border, bright 

 tawny at the base and along the fore border, and slightly tinged 

 with that colour along some veins in the disk ; veins black ; poisers 

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

 wings 19 lines. 



It differs from A. erythrocephala in the upright fore side of the 

 angle at the end of the first submarginal areolet. 



a. Port Essington. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



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



Anthrax imbuta, n. s. Nigra, pectore cano, scutello ferrugineo, 

 abdornine nigro lateribus apice subtusque ferrugineo, pedibus 

 ferrugineis, alis Jlavo-fuscis. 



Allied to A. fulvula. Head wanting: chest dark brown, 

 clothed with yellow hairs ; scutcheon ferruginous : breast hoary, 

 thickly clothed with yellow hairs: abdomen black, clothed with 

 yellow hairs, ferruginous on each side, at the tip, and beneath : legs 

 ferruginous, clothed with yellow hairs and black bristles ; feet pi- 

 ceous: wings yellowish brown, rather long; the yellow colour pre- 

 vailing most at the base, on the fore borders and along the margins 

 of the veins ; wing-ribs and veins ferruginous, the latter piceous to- 

 wards the tips of the wings ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 4 

 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



