Genus Coretlira . 
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9 . Head pale dusky-brown; eyes black ; rostrum and palpi 
dusky-brown, hairy ; antennae banded brown and grey. 
Thorax dull greyish-brown, with a broad median dark brown 
line narrowing behind, and ending about two-thirds of the way 
across the mesonotum; on each side of the mesonotum behind is 
a large dark brown patch, commencing just before the median 
line ends, the pale intervening spaces with numerous dark 
specks, from which the long pallid hairs arise; these are also 
seen on the outer sides of the dark lateral spots, and on the 
paler areas in front of the mesothorax; scutellum pale brown, 
with numerous long pallid hairs; metanotum deep brown ; 
pleurae with frosty grey sheen. 
Fig. 296. 
Corethra Asiatica. Giles, 
a, Thorax ; b, wing of ?. (X. 9.) 
Abdomen pale and translucent, ochraceous, the last two 
segments darker, densely pubescent; each segment has a narrow 
paler posterior border. 
Legs pale, pubescent, slightly brown towards their extre¬ 
mities ; ungues very small, equal and simple. 
Wings pale ochraceous, with very long, thin, hair-like, pale 
ochraceous scales densely disposed along the veins; the first 
sub-marginal cell longer and narrower than the second posterior 
cell, its base nearer the base of the wing than that of the latter, 
its stem equal to about one-half the length of the cell; stem of 
the second posterior nearly the length of the cell ; posterior 
