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INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
ANTHRAX DUCENS, Fem. 
Nigro-cinerea, capite fulvo, thoracis lateribus scutello pectoreque rufis, 
abdomine rufo vitta lata nigra ornato, antennis piceis basi rufis, pedi- 
bus rufis, alis ferrugineo-cinereis, basi fuscis ad costam rufis. 
Grayish black; head tawny with a hoary covering, thinly clothed 
above with black hairs, thickly clothed in front with tawny hairs: sucker 
ferruginous, pitchy towards the tip: first and second joints of the feelers 
pale red, clothed with black hairs; third pitchy: breast, sides of the chest 
and seutcheon red, the former with a hoary tinge: abdomen red, obconical, 
a litle longer and broader than the chest; a broad black stripe on the 
back, tapering like the chest from the base towards the tip which it does 
not attain, its sides are angular or project along the borders of the seg- 
ments: legs pale red: wings gray, dark ferruginous when viewed horizontally, 
dark brown at the base, reddish along the fore border; wing-ribs and veins 
dark red, some of the latter pitchy; poisers tawny with pitchy knobs. 
Length of the body 10 lines; of the wings 26 lines. 
New South Wales. 
ANTHRAX oBscuRA, Saunders MSS., Fem. 
Nigra, nigro-hirta, thoracis lateribus albo-pilosis, abdominis maculis late- 
ralibus ventreque rufis, antennis nigris, pedibus rufis, alis cinereis ad 
costam fuscis disco albidis fuscoque quadrimaculatis. 
Black, thinly clothed with black hairs and bristles: chest adorned on 
each side with a fringe of whitish hairs: abdomen elliptical, longer than 
the chest, clothed on each side with whitish hairs; hind borders of the 
segments on each side above and underside dull red: legs pale red, beset 
with black bristles; feet darker: wings pale gray, dark brown along the 
Sore border from the base to the tip; the outline of the brown is irregular, 
and includes a colourless spot near the tip, it does not occupy half the breadth 
of the wing and is divided from the gray part by a white irregular streak ; 
the latter contains four brown spots which occupy the cross-veins, the spot 
nearest the base is in connewion with the brown of the fore border ; wing- 
ribs ferruginous ; veins black, ferruginous at the base. Length of the body 
43 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 
Van Diemen’s Land. 
