Genus Pyretophorus. 65 



Wings with 4 large and 2 small costal 

 spots ; fringe spotted ; apical palpal 



band broad, other 2 small jeyporensis. Theobald. 



Apical and median palpal bands broad austenii. Theobald. 

 77. Fore and hind legs with apical pale bands. 



Four white palpal bands cinereus. Theobald. 



C. Legs spotted and banded. 



o. Last 3 hind tarsals all white. 



Thorax golden scaled aureosqiiamiger \ n. sp. 



aa. Last hind tarsal not white. 

 £. Femora and tibiae spotted. 



Tarsal bands apical. • 



3 palpal bands. 



Apical one broad, others narrow ... costalis. Loew. 

 Apical and median ones broad ... marshallii. Theobald. 

 j8)8. Femora, tibiae and first tarsals spotted. 

 Tarsal bands apical. 



4 palpal bands ardensis. Theobald. 



A broad tibio-metatarsal joint band. 



Mid legs banded elegans. James. 



Mid legs unhanded leucosphyrus . Donitz. 



P. merus, Donitz, comes near cinereus, but in this Table near costalis — the 



wing fringe spots are broader than in that species. 

 P. atratipes, Skuse, may also come in this genus — the palpi are only white 



at the tip. Legs unhanded. 



Pyretophorus nigrifasciatus. n. sp. 



Head with pale grey scales in front, black behind ; palpi with 

 narrow black apex and three white bands, the two apically 

 situated ones closer together than the middle and basal. Thorax 

 ashy in the middle, deep brown at the sides ; clothed with narrow, 

 curved, pale creamy scales. Abdomen deep brown, with golden 

 hairs. Legs deep brown, unbanded. Wings mostly creamy scaled, 

 four moderate-sized black costal spots and two small basal ones, 

 the large ones spread evenly on to the first long vein. 



? . Head deep brown, with dense, upright, creamy- white 

 scales in front, deep black ones behind, all rather broadly 

 expanded apically, a tuft of long creamy white ones projecting 

 between the eyes ; antennae brown, basal segment bright testa- 

 ceous, with a few pale scales on the basal segments ; pubescence 

 pale ; palpi deep brown, rather thin, with dark apex, the dark 

 band being about the same size as the next pale band, the second 

 pale band nearer to the first than it is to the third. 



Thorax ashy grey in the middle, deep brown at the sides, 



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