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clothed with rather long and broad, flat, narrow-curved scales of 

 a dull creamy hue, with brown chaetae which become golden over 

 the roots of the wings ; scutellum pale brown, with similar scales 

 to the mesonotum and brown border-bristles, metanotum deep 

 brown. 



Abdomen deep shiny brown, with golden and brown hairs. 



Legs brown, unhanded, with a pale spot at the apex of the 

 hind femora and tibiae \ ungues equal and simple. 



Wings creamy yellow scaled with black spots, four moderately 

 large ones and two small basal ones on the costa, the dark areas 

 about equal in extent to the pale, and the four large spots 

 spreading quite evenly on to the first long vein, except that the 

 third is perhaps not quite so long as on the costa ; two dusky 

 areas on each branch of the first fork-cell and one large one on 

 the stem on each side of the cross-vein ; third long vein with a 

 spot at the base and apex ; the fourth with two dusky spots on 

 the upper branch, one near the apex on the lower and dusky 

 scales on the stem ; the fifth with three on the upper branch, one 

 at apex of lower, and one near the base of the vein ; sixth with 

 traces of two dusky spots \ fringe with pale areas, except where 

 the sixth joins the costa ; first sub-marginal cell longer and 

 narrower than the second posterior cell, its base slightly nearer 

 the base of the wing, its stem about two-thirds the length of the 

 cell ; stem of the second posterior as long as the cell ; super- 

 numerary and mid cross-veins in one line, posterior cross-vein 

 short, nearly twice its own length distant from the mid. Halteres 

 deep ochreous, with slightly fuscous knob. 



Length. — 5*5 mm. 



Habitat. — Peshin, India (Major C. G. Nurse). 



Time of capture. — April. 



Observations. — At first sight this species, which has very large 

 wings, might be mistaken for Myzomyia turkhudi, but a casual 

 examination of the thorax shows the pale curved type of scales, 

 showing it to be a Pyretophorus. 



The black-tipped palpi will separate it from other Pyreto- 

 phoru8. 



Pyretophorus nursei. n. sp. 



Head with white scales in front, deep brown behind ; palpi 

 long and thin, brown with three white bands, the third apical, 

 about equi-distant. Thorax ashy grey, dark at the sides, with 

 narrow-curved pale grey to white scales. Abdomen pale shiny 



