170 : INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
ANTHRAX onusTa, Fem. 
Nigra, capite antico scutello abdominis basi maculis ventreque Serrugineis, 
abdomine vittis quatuor interruptis albo-pilosis ornato, antennis fer- 
rugineis, pedibus nigris, alis fuscis, apice subcinereis macula magna 
fulva guttis subcinereis fulvisque fusciaque limpida ornatis. 
Black: head ferruginous and shining in front, gray behind: feelers 
ferruginous ; first joint stout, clothed with short black hairs; second very 
short; third tapering from the base to the tip, a little longer and much 
narrower than the first; fougth linear, very slender, about half the length 
of the third joint: chest clothed with tawny hairs; sides and breast clothed 
with white hairs; a patch of ferruginous hairs on each side above the base 
of the wings; scutcheon ferruginous : abdomen oval, a little broader but 
hardly longer than the chest, clothed with short black hairs, adorned with 
a large ferruginous spot on each side of the base and with four more or less 
interrupted bands of white hairs ; underside ferruginous for more than half 
the length from the base: legs clothed with short black hairs: wings dark 
brown ; a large irregular tawny spot near the base, beyond this are a few pale 
gray and tawny dots ; these are succeeded by a slightly oblique colourless 
band widening towards the fore border which it does not attain ; tips pale 
gray ; wing-ribs and veins black, the latter tawny in the pale parts of the 
wing towards the base; poisers pitchy with yellow knobs. Length of the 
body 84 lines; of the wings 22 lines. 
Nicopolis ? 
ANTHRAX SEMILUCIDA, Fem. 
Nigra, scutello ferrugineo, abdomine fasciis flavo-pilosis ornato, antennis 
nigris basi ferrugineis, pedibus nigris, alis subcinereis bast et ad 
costam fulvis. 
Black: head gray above, hoary beneath, clothed in front and beneath 
with tawny hairs: feelers black, dark ferruginous at the base; first joint 
short, hardly twice the length of the second ; third slightly tapering from 
the base to the tip, about thrice the length of the first ; fourth slender, 
linear, not more than one-fourth of the length of the third: chest and breast 
clothed with tawny hairs; scutcheon dark ferruginous: abdomen slightly 
obconical, a little broader but not longer than the chest; each segment 
