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thin, deep brown ; palpi long and thin deep blackish-brown, with 
a narrowrwhite band and two broad white oiies, one apical, the 
other involving both sides of‘the joint; antennae deep brown. 
Thorax bright slaty grey in the middle with a median and 
sub-median dark brown lines and rich dark brown areas at the 
sides, scantily clothed with narrow-curved greyish-white scales 
and golden and brown hairs, a dense tuft of longer scales in the 
middle line projecting over the head; scutellum pale ochreous, 
brown in the middle with similar scales, border bristles brown 
with golden reflections ; metanotum deep brown. 
Abdomen black with golden hairs. 
Legs deep brown with apical yellow bands to tibiae, metatarsi 
and the tarsi, except the last two, with apical yellow bands and 
a narrow basal one on the tibiae; ungues equal and simple ; the 
leg banding somewhat variable in number of bands. No spots as 
in CGstalis. 
Wings with the outer border with three large white spots 
and two small basal ones, the first black areas spreads evenly on 
to the first long vein, the second has a white spot on it, the third 
also with a small basal white spot, base of the first long vein 
white ; greater part of the second pale scaled, a small dark spot 
near apex of the outer branch, beneath the apical black costal 
'Fig. 15. 
Wing of Pyretophorus pseudocostalis. ?. n. sp. 
spot, a long black area and a small apical one on the inner 
branch and one on the stem at the base of the fork; third long 
vein with two black spots, one near the base, another near the 
apex; fourth with two dark spots on outer branch, one on inner 
and one long one on the stem near the fork; base of the fork 
of the fifth black, two small spots on the outer branch and one 
near apex of inner and one on thfe stem near the base; three on 
