192 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
the tips along nearly two-thirds of the hind border ; the outline of the brown 
has curves along the whole length, and between its two deepest indentations it 
ewtends nearly to the hind border of the wing ; wing-ribs and veins black ; 
poisers pitchy with pale yellow tips. Length of the body 44 lines; of the 
wings 11 lines. 
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ANTHRAX £QuA, Fem. 
Nigro-fusca, scutelli margine postico albo-hirto, abdominis lateribus albo 
nigroque fasciculatis, antennis pedibusque nigris, alis limpidis macu- 
lis confluentibus guitisque fuscis ornatis. 
Black, covered with brown, clothed with black hairs: a hoary tinge on 
the fore part of the head, whose hind part is gray and clothed with short 
white hairs: chest and breast partly clothed with hoary and dark tawny hairs : 
hind border of the seutcheon adorned with a fringe of white hairs : abdomen 
nearly elliptical, a little shorter and broader than the chest, adorned with 
tufts of black and white hairs, which last occupy nearly the whole of the 
back towards the tip: legs covered with reddish brown, adorned with white 
scales, armed with white spines: wings colourless, brown at the base, adorned 
with numerous brown spots which are mostly confluent, and with brown dots 
which form a row along the fore border and a few shorter and less distinct 
vows on the disk ; the tips and nearly two-thirds of the hind border are co- 
lourless with the exception of sia round brown dots ; the borders of the cross- 
veins are pale brown ; wing-ribs and yeins black ; poisers black with white 
tips. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 14 lines. 
South America. 
ANTHRAX succEDENS, Fem. 
Nigra, nigro-hirta, antennis nigris, pedibus piceis, tibiis fulvis, alis lim- 
pidis basi fuscis fusco bimaculatis. 
Black, clothed with short black hairs and long black bristles: abdo- 
men obconical, a little longer than the chest: legs pitchy, beset with black 
bristles; shanks dark tawny : wings colourless, brown towards the base ; the 
outline of the brown is irregular and in its upper course it projects into the 
colourless part; and it eatends from near two-thirds of the fore border to 
