182 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
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ANTHRAX PELLUCIDA, Fem. 
Nigra, angusta, flavo-hirta, abdominis lateribus albo nigroque fasciculatis, 
antennis pedibusque nigris, alis limpidis longis angustis basi et ad 
costam fuscis. 
Black, narrow, linear; head clothed with black or pale yellow hairs, 
the former chiefly above, the latter in front: chest, breast and abdomen 
clothed with pale yellow hairs: abdomen hardly longer than the chest, 
very slightly decreasing in breadth from the base to the tip which is trun- 
cated ; side adorned with alternate tufts of black and white hairs: legs 
clothed with very short black hairs; claws ferruginous with black tips : 
wings colourless, long and narrow, dark brown at the base and along three- 
fourths of the length of the fore border ; wing-ribs and yeins black ; scales 
pale tawny ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 3—4 lines; of the wings 
10—11 lines. 
Van Diemen’s Land. 
ANTHRAX TRANSLATA, Fem. 
Nigra, fulvo-hirta, pedibus nigris, alis subcinereis basi et ad costam 
Suscis. 
Head wanting. Black, rather broad, thickly clothed with tawny 
hairs: abdomen obconical, rather longer and broader than the chest: legs 
clothed with short black hairs: wings slightly tinged with gray, dark brown 
at the base and along three-fourths of the fore border ; wing-ribs pitchy ; 
veins black, partly pitchy, clouded with pale brown. Length of the body 
5 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 
West Indies. 
ANTHRAX ALBO-FULVA, Mas. 
Nigro-cinerea, pectore ventreque canis, abdominis segmentorum marginibus 
posticis fulvis, antennis basi pedibusque fulvis, alis limpidis. 
Black, tinged with gray, clothed with short tawny hairs: head covered 
with a tawny hue, clothed with short whitish hairs: first and second joints 
of the feelers tawny: breast and underside of the abdomen hoary, clothed 
