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3. S. culiciformis. Thorax with a few white 

 hair - like scales. Wings unspotted. Resembles 

 A. aitkeni. Has a Culex-Yikz attitude. Bombay. 



4. S. pallida. Thorax with hair-like brown 

 curved scales and frosty grey down. Philippine Isles. 



GENUS PYRETOPHORUS 



A. Legs unbanded. 



a. Palpi with three pale bands, apex black. 



1. P. nigrifasciatus. Costa, four large, two small 

 black spots. Peshin, India, and Cyprus. 



aa. Palpi, with three pale bands, apex white. 



2. P. nursei. Resembles former. Costa, with 

 four large and two small black spots. Mid-cross vein 

 very long. Branches of second long vein much 

 curved. Quetta, India. 



3. P. minimus. Wings, three nearly equal 

 creamy spots and an apical spot. Fringe, spotted 

 except at the sixth vein, thus distinguished from 

 P. superfictus. Legs, no trace of banding or pale 

 knee spots. Mid ungues straight ; fore ungues curved. 

 Hong Kong. 



4. P. sergenti. Costa, with five large black 

 spots, first forked cell much longer than the second. 

 Algeria. 



5. P. palestinensis. Wings, five large black 

 costal spots and five yellowish ones of unequal length. 

 Legs brown, a pale spot at junction of tibiae and 

 femora, and tibiae and metatarsi. Palpi, three pale 

 bands, the apex white. Differs from P. chaudoyei in 

 the form of the large costal spot in the apical half of 

 the sixth long vein being dark, and in presence of 

 a deep brown median thoracic line. Resembles 



