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190 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
ANTHRAX CEDENS, Fem. 
Nigra, nigro-hirta, alis nigro-fuseis apice limpidis. 
Deep black, clothed with black hairs: abdomen obconical, not longer 
than the chest: legs clothed with short black hairs and bristles : wings very 
dark brown with the exception of a narrow stripe extending from the tip 
along the hind border ; the outline of the brown is rather jayged and its limits 
are from nine-tenths of the fore border to rather beyond half the length of the 
hind border, it hardly includes a colourless streak which borders the ecross- 
vein of the first posterior areolet ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers black 
with tawny tips. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 11 lines. 
United States. 
ANTHRAX Divisa, Mas. 
Nigra, fulvo-hirta, pectore cinereo, abdominis lateribus basi ferrugineo- 
pilosis apice argenteo-pilosis, pedibus piceis, femoribus ferrugineo 
tectis, alis fuscis ad apices oblique sinuato-limpidis. 
Deep black, thickly clothed with short black hairs: head clothed with 
short black hairs, in front with light tawny hairs, and behind with silvery 
hairs : mouth pitchy: sides of the chest and of the breast thickly clothed 
with bright tawny hairs: breast gray: abdomen slightly obconical, shorter 
than the chest, adorned on each side of the base with bright ferruginous 
hairs, and at the tip with silvery white hairs: legs pitchy, clothed with 
very short black hairs and bristles ; thighs adorned with a ferruginous co- 
vering : wings very dark rich brown on much more than half the surface 
from the base ; the outline of this brown is oblique and extends from four- 
Jifths of the fore border to much beyond one-third of the hind border ; it has 
two concave curves, the hind one ewtremely slight, the fore one deeper ; wing- 
ribs and veins black; poisers tawny. Length of the body 5% lines; of 
the wings 12 lines. 
South America, 
