DIPTERA. 169 
ANTHRAX PURPURARIA, Fem. 
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Nigra, capite fulvo, scutello ferrugineo, thorace fulvo-hirto, abdomine pilis 
albis ornato, antennis piceis basi fulvis, pedibus nigris, alis purpureo- 
fuseis. 
Black: clothed with short black hairs: head dark tawny: feelers 
pitchy ; first and second joints tawny : sides and front of the chest adorned 
with a thick fringe of bright tawny hairs; a tuft of yellowish white hairs 
beneath the base of each wing: scutcheon ferruginous: abdomen obconi- 
cal, a little shorter than tbe chest, adorned on each side at the base with a 
tuft of ferruginous hairs, on the middle of each side with a tuft of white 
hairs, and with white hairs at the tip ; underside adorned with a stripe of 
white hairs: wings durk brown, darkest at the base, adorned with purple 
lustre ; four submarginal areolets, the third being subdivided by a straight 
or slightly curved oblique vein ; four posterior areolets, the first narrow, the 
other three broad and sucvessively increasing in breadth; scales dark 
brown, deeply fringed ; poisers pitchy. Length of the body 7% lines; of 
the wings 20 lines. 
Java. 
ANTHRAX PuLcHRA, Fem. 
Nigra, fulvo-hirta, abdominis lateribus aureo et ad apicem argenteo-hirtis, 
antennis pedibusque nigris, alis nigro-fuscis apice dimidioque postico 
cinereis. 
Black, clothed with tawny hairs: sucker and feelers black : chest and 
breast clothed with bright tawny hairs: abdomen slightly obconical, a lit- 
tle narrower but not longer than the chest; a tuft of tawny hairs on each 
side at the base; each side adorned with a very broad stripe of golden hairs 
which are succeeded on the two last seyments by silvery hairs; disk of the 
underside clothed with silvery hairs and surrounded by black hairs: legs 
clothed by short black hairs and bristles: wings gray, dark brown at the 
base and beneath the fore border for half the breadth till near the tips. 
Length of the body 74 lines; of the wings 17 lines. ° 
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