188 INSHOTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
ANTHRAX REPERTA, Fem. 
Nigro-fusca, nigro-pilosa, pectore cinereo, abdominis apice albo fascicu- 
lato, antennis nigris, pedibus piceis, alis fuscis apicem versus oblique 
limpidis. 
Slender, tinged with dark brown, clothed with short black hairs: head 
clothed behind with dark tawny hairs: feelers black: breast gray: abdo- 
men nearly elliptical, a little broader and longer than the chest; sides 
adorned with a tuft of white hairs at the base and with white hairs towards 
the tip: legs pitchy, clothed with very short black hairs and bristles: wings 
rather lony and narrow, dark brown on much more than half the surface 
from the base, colowrless thence to the tips, the outline of this brown is nearly 
straight along the hinder half, and irregular with three angles along the fore 
half ; it extends from five-sixths of the fore border to one-third of the hind 
border and is thus very oblique ; wing-ribs and veins pitchy, poisers pitchy 
with pale tawny tips. Length of the body 3} lines; of the wings 10 
lines. 
South America. 
ANTHRAX Excrsa, Mas. 
Nigra, nigro-hirta, antennis nigris, pedibus piceis tarsis nigris, alis apicem 
versus oblique et undatim limpidis. 
Black, thickly clothed with rather long black hairs: mouth pitchy : 
abdomen nearly elliptical, hardly longer than the chest: legs pitchy, clothed 
with short black hairs and bristles; feet black: wings very dark rich brown 
on more than half the surface from the base, the outline of this brown is 
slightly irregular for one-third of the length from the fore border and has a 
deep inward curve from thence to the hind border, it extends from four-fifths 
of the fore border to beyond one-third of the hind border ; tips bright white ; 
wing-ribs, veins and poisers black. Length of the body 4% lines; of the 
wings 12 lines. 
South America. 
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