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DIPTERA. 179 
ANTHRAX CLARA, Fem. 
Nigra, fulvo-hirta, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis limpidis basi et ad 
costam fuscis. 
Black, thickly clothed with bright tawny hairs: head clothed above 
with black hairs: abdomen obconical, a little shorter and broader than the 
chest : legs clothed with short black hairs: wings colourless, dark brown 
along the fore border till near the tip ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers 
tawny. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 
East India. 
AnTuRAx LucrpA, Fem. 
Nigra, fulvo-hirta, abdominis apice nigro-piloso fasciculisque flavo-albis 
ornato, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis limpidis ad costam fuscis. 
Black, thickly clothed with bright tawny hairs: head clothed above 
with black hairs: abdomen nearly linear, truncated at the tip, hardly 
shorter than the chest ; tip clothed with black hairs and adorned on each 
side with a tuft of yellowish-white hairs: wings colourless, brown along the 
fore border for two-thirds of the length; wing-ribs and veins black, the 
latter pitchy beneath the fore border; poisers yellow. ‘The brown on the 
wing of this species is much narrower than that of A. manifesta. Length 
of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 
East India. 
ANTHRAX LIMPIDA, Fem. 
Nigra, fulvo-hirta, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis limpidis costa fuscis. 
Black: head clothed above with short tawny and longer black hairs, 
beneath with longer tawny hairs: chest clothed with bright tawny hairs: 
abdomen slightly obconical, somewhat truncated at the tip, shorter than the 
chest, clothed with pale tawny hairs: legs clothed with short black hairs : 
wings colourless, with a very narrow brown stripe along the fore border for 
more than two-thirds of the length ; wing-ribs pitchy ; veins black, pitchy 
at the base and along the fore border ; poisers pale yellow. Length of the 
body 5 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 
East India. 
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