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small one near the apex, and the sixth long vein has three black 

 spots, the basal one being small. 



It was described by Capt. James shortly before Yol. III. of 

 the work appeared. His description did not reach me till some 

 time afterwards, specimens having been sent him by Drs. Stephens 

 and Christophers as well as to myself to describe. 



Additional localities. — Central Provinces, Nagpur (Capt. 

 James, I. M.S.) ; Jakot, South India (Mr. Aitken) ; Bombay. 



Pyretophorus austenii, Theobald (1905). 

 The Entomologist, Vol. XXXIX., p. 102 (1905). 



Head black, with grey scales in front ; proboscis black ; palpi 

 with two broad snowy-white bands, the last forming a white 

 apex, and a third very narrow one. Thorax brown, clothed with 

 silvery-grey scales, also scutellum. Abdomen black, with golden 

 hairs. Legs black, with apical white tips. Wings with black 

 and white patches of scales, costa with two small white spots, 

 and traces of a minute third spot towards the base ; most of 

 veins pale-scaled, but prominent black spots at the base of the 

 second posterior cell and apex of the lower branch of fifth long 

 vein. 



9 . Head black, with upright snowy-white forked scales in 

 front, black ones behind ; proboscis black ; palpi black scaled, 

 densely at the base, with two broad white bands towards the 

 apex, one forming the apex of the palpi, and a third small one 

 towards the basal half. Thorax black, with scattered broad 

 curved snowy-white scales also the scutellum. Abdomen black, 

 densely clothed with golden hairs ; the two lobes with black 

 scales. 



Legs black, the apices of all the segments, except the last in 

 the fore and mid legs, with a narrow white band ; in the hind 

 legs all the segments are banded ; ungues equal and simple, 

 rather long. 



Wings with dense Pyretophorus-like scales ; the costa with 

 three white spots, the apical one large, the second smaller, and 

 the third very small ; all three spread fairly evenly on to the first 

 long vein, which has in addition a small white spot between the 

 two apical costal ones, and another near the third spot, its base 

 mostly white. On the base of the costa is another small 

 white spot not reaching the top of the costa ; the branches of the 

 third long vein are black at the tips and bases near the fork, 



