Genus Pyretophorus. 67 
Legs deep blackish-brown, with narrow apical pale bands 
visible in certain lights only ; ungues small, equal, and simple. 
Wings with long thin lanceolate lateral vein scales ; the costa 
black, with two large white spots on the apical half and two 
small ones at the base ; between the second large one and the 
first small basal one are a few white scales which do not pass 
normally on to the costal border (in some specimens they do, how- 
ever, and so another small costal spot is formed) (fig. 16, 5), the 
pale costal areas pass on to the first long vein ; the first costal spot 
also passes on to the upper branch of the first fork-cell, which has 
a pale spot at its base and also two pale spots on its stem. ; there 
is a pale area towards the apex and a small one at the base of 
the third long vein (sometimes the greater part of the third long 
vein becomes pale-scaled) ; a small pale spot at the cross-veins on 
the fourth vein and another at its base; a large pale area on the 
upper branch of the fifth, and another near the base, and one on 
its lower branch, and three on the sixth vein; apical fringe 
yellow, with two black spots, remainder dark, with a pale spot, 
where each vein joins the costa ; border- 
scales yellow. Halteres with deep 
ochraceous stem and fuscous knob. 
Length.—4 mm. 
6. LPalpi deep brown, the two 
apical joints swollen, short, the apical 
one white, the penultimate with a large 
white patch on one side, apex of the 
antepenultimate white, a few pale and 
brown hairs on the last two joints, and 
a small tuft at the apex of the ante- 
penultimate ; antennae banded grey and 
brown, the brown forming narrow bands ; 
plume-hairs brown. 
Ungues of the fore legs unequal, the 
larger uniserrated, those of the middle 
and fore legs small, equal, and simple. 
Basal lobes of the ¢ genitalia scaly ; 
claspers long. 

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Length.—4 to 4°5 mm. pei sa Fig. 42 
; é . Pyretophorus Jeyporensis. n. sp. 
Habitat.—J eypore Agency, India aes 
(Stephens and Christophers). 
Observations.— Described from three ?’s and two ¢’s sent 
over by Dr. Christophers. It resembles at first sight Myzomyia 
sulicifacies, Giles, but can at once be told by the narrow curved 
in. 
