Genus Pyretophorus. 69 
scales and a few small black patches and six black costal spots, 
smaller than the intervening yellow areas. Abdomen deep brown. 
Legs deep brown, unbanded, a pale knee and tibial spot to the 
hind legs. 
@. Head black (Plate IX.), with black upright forked 
scales behind, creamy-white ones in front and some ‘median 
narrow flat ones on each side of the bare median line in front, 
and a few long pointed ones forming a frontal tuft; antennae 
deep brown, the first few basal joints with narrow white scales, 
basal joint testaceous ; palpi (fig. 16, 7) deep brown, with three 
narrow white bands, apex black, the first two apical bands nearer 
one another than the second and third bands; clypeus fawn 
coloured ; proboscis deep brown. 
Thorax bright brown, paler in some specimens than others, 
showing two more or less distinct dark median lines, with 
numerous pale golden, long, narrow-curved scales, which are more 
flattened laterally ; scutellum pale brown, with pale long, narrow- 
curved scales, and long brown border-bristles ; metanotum mottled 
with chestnut-brown and dark brown ; pleurae chestnut-brown. 
Abdomen deep brown, almost black, with golden curved hairs. 
Wings with the veins mostly pale yellow scaled, with a few 
black patches ; costa with five or six black spots, all much smaller 
than the intervening yellow areas, the apical one small, the next 
larger as a rule, but in some specimens very small, the third 
largest, the fourth the same size as the second, the basal one very 
small, base of wing pale, the first four spread evenly on to the 

Fie. 44, 
Wing of Pyretophorus Chaudoyet. @. NU. Sp. 
first long vein, the third and fourth across the sub-costal ; there 
is a small black spot on the upper branch of the first fork-cell, 
just under the first costal spot, a small apical one and another 
trace on the lower branch, the stem with two black spots, a large 
one under the third costal spot ; the third long vein has one at its 
apex and another near its base; the fourth has two small ones 
on its upper, one on its lower branch, and two larger ones on its 
