Genus Pyretophorus. 75 



Pyretophorus ardensis. Theobald (1905). 

 Journ. Econ. Biol. Vol. I., No. 1, p. 17 (1905). 



Head deep brown with grey scales ; palpi in female brown 

 with white apex and three other narrow white bands ; proboscis 

 brown. Thorax grey in the middle, dark brown laterally. 

 Abdomen dark brown with golden hairs. Legs brown with 

 femora, tibiae and first tarsals spotted, other tarsals with narrow 

 apical pale bands, with yellow and deep brown scales, costa with 

 six black spots, the two apical ones spreading evenly on to the 

 first long vein, the third large having a large and small dark area 

 beneath it, the fourth smaller, the two basal ones very small 

 and only on the costa ; fringe spotted. 



J . Head deep brown, clothed with a few white narrow-curved 

 scales in the middle, numerous large white upright forked scales 

 at the sides of them, and then upright black forked scales, two 

 tufts of small white scales project forwards between the eyes, 

 and some longer grey median scales between them. Palpi 

 brown with deep brown scales, apex broadly white and with 

 three other narrow white bands, one close to the broad apical 

 fascia ; proboscis deep brown, a little longer than the palpi. 

 Antennae deep brown, basal lobe nude, second segment with a 

 few grey scales. Thorax slaty grey in the middle, with a 

 median dark line and traces of lateral dark lines on it, at the 

 sides it is deep rich brown, clothed with long narrow-curved 

 golden hairs and a tuft of white scales in front projecting over 

 the head; at the sides of these appear dusky outstanding 

 spatulate scales, which may be attached to the prothoracic lobes ; 

 scutellum slaty grey (ochreous in some lights) with a few long- 

 golden curved hairs and long brown posterior border-bristles ; 

 metanotum deep brown. Abdomen deep blackish-brown, shiny, 

 with long golden-brown hairs. 



Legs deep brown, banded and spotted with pale creamy white 

 as follows : — A narrow apical band at the apex of the second 

 and third fore tarsals, also at the apex of the first tarsal, which 

 has also two broad and two narrow bands upon it, tibiae and 

 femora with white spots, the last two tarsals are pure brown ; 

 in the mid legs the tarsals are the same, but the first tarsal is 

 more spotted and the femora less so, having only five instead of 

 six spots ; in the hind legs the first tarsal has seven equi-distant 

 and prominent spots, whilst the next three tarsals have the apex 

 with a pale band, claws equal and simple ; coxae pallid. Wings 



