Genus Pyretophorus. 67 



brown with the apices of the segments dark and with brownish 

 hairs. Legs brown, unbanded. Wings with four large and two 

 small basal dark costal spots ; first, second and fourth spread 

 uniformly on to the first long vein, the third is smaller on the 

 first long vein. 



9 . Head brown with upright forked white scales in front, 

 dark behind, and with a white tuft projecting between the eyes ; 

 proboscis and palpi long and thin, the former brown, the latter 

 with three equi-distant dull white bands, one apical ; antennae 

 deep brown, basal segment and base of second segment yellow, 

 a few white scales on some of the basal segments. 



Thorax bright ashy-brown in the middle with narrow-curved 

 pale scales and a darker median line, the sides deep brown ; in 

 some lights the median area has a light brown appearance, but 

 with the scales it appears ashy-grey ; scutellum pale greyish- 

 brown with pale narrow-curved scales and pale brown border 

 bristles ; metanotum bright brown. 



Abdomen pale shiny brown, tessellated with darker brown, 

 the apical borders of the segments dark ; hairs pale brown to 

 pale golden. 



Legs brown, unbanded ; a pale spot at the apices of the 

 femora and tibiae ; ungues equal and simple. 



Wings scaled with black and yellow, four large and two 

 small costal spots, the apical one small, the third and fourth 

 about equal size, the second not quite so long as the third, the 

 first, second and fourth spread evenly on to the first long vein, 

 the third has the black area on the first vein not as long as the 

 costal area which overlaps it at each end ; the two basal spots 

 do not reach the first vein ; wing field with a few dusky spots 

 especially at the region of the cross-veins ; first sub-marginal cell 

 slightly longer and narrower than the second posterior cell, its 

 base slightly nearer the apex of the wing, its stem as long 

 as the cell, both branches of the vein prominently curved ; 

 second posterior cell with its stem as long as the cell ; super- 

 numerary cross-vein small, rather more than its own length 

 nearer the apex of the wing than the mid, the latter very long 

 rather more than twice the length of the supernumerary ; 

 posterior cross- vein small, about the size of the supernumerary, 

 sloping backwards and nearly twice its own length distant from 

 the mid ; halteres with pale stem and fuscous knob. 



Length. — 5 ' 5 mm. 



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



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