ANTHRAX
Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 2
The name of a Fabfician genus of Dipterous insects, having the mouth provided with a verj straight setaceous sucker, formed of two unequal horizontal valves, and containing stings; palpi hairy; antennae distant, the last joint setaceous. Til nus is now raised to the rank of a family, Anthi racterised by a short body; win. widely em; antenna; distant, two and sometimes three jointed; the head as high as the thorax. Two of the genera (Somalia, and Anthrax proper) are British. [s. 72]
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