

Genus Pyretophorus. 73 



dorsally and ventrally with long golden hairs. The black scales near the 

 fork of V on the wing, are blunt-ended. 



$ . Head black, with a few black forked scales behind and clavate 

 white scales between the eyes, succeeded by white spindle-shaped scales 

 on the front and a rather scanty double white frontal tuft ; palp moderately 

 densely black-scaled, the outer fourth of the appendage white, with a 

 narrow black band, and a smaller white band nearer the base, proboscis 

 black with yellow tip; antennae with a long second joint clothed with 

 white scales. Pleurae mostly fuscous. Halteres with densely black scaled 

 knobs. A very slender-built dark looking mosquito. 



Length. — About 4 mm. 



Habitat.— Zululand, 80 miles N. of Eshowe, in bushy country, at an 

 -elevation of 1500 feet. This valley is said to be notoriously malarious, 

 according to Dr. Power." 



Pyretophoeus aureosquamiger. n. sp. 



Thorax deep slaty -grey in the middle, deep brown on each 

 side with golden spindle-shaped scales. Palpi deep blackish -brown 

 with four white bands. Abdomen deep blackish-brown with dull 

 golden hairs. Legs deep brown, spotted with pale yellow and 

 banded with white, the last three hind tarsals all white. Wings 

 mostly dark-scaled, with three white costal spots. 



$ . Head black with ochreous upright forked scales in the 

 middle, dark ones behind, and to some extent at the sides, and 

 some irregular narrow-curved and flattened pale creamy ones in 

 front, and some pale hair-like scales projecting forwards. Palpi 

 clothed with deep blackish-brown scales with four rather narrow 

 pure white bands, one apical, the second rather close to it, the 

 third further off, and the fourth further off still ; proboscis thin, 

 almost black ; antennae brown with paler bands. 



Thorax deep slaty-grey in the middle, deep brown at the 

 sides, clothed with short, rather broad, closely appressed rich 

 golden scales ; dark brown chaetae over the roots of the wings, 

 paler ones below ; scutellum deep slaty-grey with similar golden 

 scales to the mesonotum and deep brown border-bristles ; the 

 mesonotum shows some darker lines and some minute black 

 specks ; metanotum black. 



Abdomen black with dark brown and black hairs. 



Legs deep brown, the femora and tibiae spotted with yellowish- 

 white, the first tarsal segment with three white bands, one apical, 

 the mid first tarsal with the bands much smaller, the hind with 

 six small spots ; the first two tarsals of the fore legs broadly white 

 banded apically, in the mid narrowly, in the hind legs the first 



