240 LIST OF DIPTERA. 



Group II. 



Anthrax dives, n. s., Div. I., Wied., mas. Fusca, pilis aureis ves- 

 tita, capite nigro, scutello ferrugineo, abdomine nigro pedibus 

 ferrugineis, tarsis nigris, alis fuscis apice limpidis. 



Head black, with an orange tawny tuft above between the eyes, 

 which are dark red: there are also a few tawny hairs about the 

 mouth, which like the feelers is black : chest brown, clothed with 

 short brown and a few long black hairs, and adorned with a fringe 

 of orange tawny along the fore border and along each side : breast 

 brown, having also a fringe of orange tawny hairs along the fore 

 border, and some hairs of this colour extend into the disk and mingle 

 with the long black hairs that clothe it ; scutcheon ferruginous, 

 beset with stout black hairs, and on the hind border with long black 

 bristles: abdomen black above, clothed especially towards the tip 

 with brown hairs, and adorned along each side with orange tawny 

 hairs ; these last are most thick at the base, and there they slightly 

 extend across the back ; a band of white hairs occupies nearly the 

 whole breadth of the third segment ; the tip of the abdomen and the 

 whole of the under-side are also clothed with orange tawny hairs : 

 legs ferruginous, clothed with short black hairs ; hips, knees and 

 feet black : wings dark brown at the base and along the fore border 

 till near the tip, the outline of this colour is regular and very 

 oblique, and runs nearly to the base in a line almost parallel to the 

 hind border ; rest of the wing colourless ; veins black ; poisers pi- 

 ceous. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. Silhet. From Mr. Stainforth's collection. 



b. Silhet. From Mr. Sowerby's collection. 



Anthrax ferrea, n. s., Div. 1., Wied., fern. Cinerea, capite fulvo, 

 thorace cano univittato fuscoque bivittato, scutello ferrugineo, 

 pectore rufo-fulvo, abdomine ferrugineo maculis dorsalibus nigris, 

 pedibus piceis femoribus ferrugineis, alis fulvis fusco nebulosis, 

 apicibus marginibusque posticis limpidis. 



Head bright tawny, and clothed with short hairs of the same 

 colour, black beneath -/eyes bright red : mouth black : feelers tawny 

 with black tips : chest gray, clothed with tawny hairs, and having a 

 hoary stripe along the middle, and an indistinct brown stripe on each 

 side ; scutcheon ferruginous : breast reddish tawny, clothed with 

 tawny hairs : abdomen ferruginous, clothed with tawny hairs, and 

 having also some yellowish white hairs towards the base, where they 

 most abound, and form a tuft on each side ; each segment, excepting 

 the two last, with a triangular black spot on the back, these spots de- 

 crease in size from the base onwards: legs piceous, clothed with 





