184 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
narrow, adorned with four brown spots which cloud the cross-veins ; wing- 
ribs pitehy ; veins black, pitchy at the base and along the fore border ; 
poisers pitchy with tawny knobs. Length of the body 3}—44 lines; of the 
wings 10—12 lines. 
East India. J 
ANTHRAX REDUCTA, Mas. 
Atra, capite antice abdominisque apice pilis ornateis argentis, thorace pilis 
fuscis hirto, antennis nigris, pedibus piceis, tibiis fulvis, alis limpidis 
basi fuscis bimaculatis. 
Deep velvet-like black: front of the head thickly clothed with silvery 
white hairs ; a few black bristles on the region of the eyelets: chest thickly 
clothed with brown hairs: abdomen nearly elliptical, a little longer than 
the chest, adorned at the tip with a tuft of silvery white hairs: legs pitchy, 
beset with short black bristles ; shanks dark tawny : wings colourless, brown 
from near three-fifths of the fore border to near two-fifths of the hind border ; 
the outline of the brown is irregularly concave, and it includes two small 
colourless spots ; wing-ribs and veins black; poisers pitchy. Length of the 
body 24 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 
ANTHRAX FUMIFLAMMA, Fem. 
Nigra, fulvo-hirta, abdomine fasciis fulvo-pilosis ornato, antennis pedibus- 
que nigris, alis nigro-cinereis basi costa nervorumque marginibus 
fulvis. 
Black, clothed with tawny hairs which are disposed in broad bands on 
the fore borders of the abdominal segments: head bright tawny, thickly 
clothed with bright tawny hairs, among which a few black bristles are min- | 
gled; underside and hind part yellowish, clothed with pale tawny hairs : 
epistoma prominent: breast clothed with pale yellow hairs: abdomen 
slightly obconical, a litde longer than the chest: legs covered with yellow 
down, armed with black spines; feet clothed with short black hairs: wings 
very dark gray, slightly tawny at the base and beneath the fore border and 
along some of the veins in the disk; wing-ribs and veins black, some of the 
latter ferruginous; poisers tawny with whitish knobs. Length of the body 
4i—5 lines; of the wings 13—14 lines. 
Jamaica. 
