3. S. culiciformis. —Thorax with a few white 
hair - like scales. Wings unspotted. Resembles 
A. aitkeni . Has a CW^y-like attitude. Bombay. 
4. 5 . pallida. —Thorax with hair-like brown 
curved scales and frosty grey down. Philippine Isles. 
Genus Pyretophorus 
A. Legs unbanded. 
a. Palpi with three pale bands, apex black. 
1. P. nigrifasciatus. —Costa, four large, two small 
black spots. Peshin, India, and Cyprus. 
aa. Palpi, with three pale bands, apex white. 
2. P. nursei. —Resembles former. Costa, with 
four large and two small black spots. Mid-cross vein 
very long. Branches of second long vein much 
curved. Quetta, India. 
3. P. minimus. —Wings, three nearly equal 
creamy spots and an apical spot. Fringe, spotted 
except at the sixth vein, thus distinguished from 
P. superpictus. Legs, no trace of banding or pale 
knee spots. Mid ungues straight ; fore ungues curved. 
Hong Kong. 
4. P. sergenti. —Costa, with five large black 
spots, first forked cell much longer than the second. 
Algeria. 
5. P. palestinensis. —Wings, five large black 
costal spots and five yellowish ones of unequal length. 
Legs brown, a pale spot at junction of tibiae and 
femora, and tibiae and metatarsi. Palpi, three pale 
bands, the apex white. Differs from P. chaudoyei in 
the form of the large costal spot in the apical half of 
the sixth long vein being dark, and in presence of 
a deep brown median thoracic line. Resembles 
