Genus Pyretophorus. 17 
reaching the actual costa, except at the base ; the whole wing 
field is darker and the legs with more pronounced spotting. The 
markings of the first long vein are, however, typical of the 
species. 
PyRETOPHORUS MARSHALLII. na. sp. 
Thorax slaty-grey in the middle, deep brown at each side, 
with grey scales; head black, with dull white scales; palpi 
black, with a broud white apical band, another of the same 
width close to ié¢ and a small one towards the base of each palp. 
Legs deep brown, with traces of apical pale bands to the 
metatarsi and tarsi. Wings with six small creamy costal spots, 
the two median black areas the largest; black scaled areas 
slightly predominating on the wings. 
@. Head black, with numerous grey upright forked scales 
in front, and some black ones behind; two large median grey 
projecting tufts, antennae deep brown, the basal joint deep 
testaceous, the next three or four following joints with white 
scales ; palpi blackish, with three white bands, the two apical 
ones very broad, the basal one small, apex white. (Fig. 16, 8.) 
Thorax slaty-grey in the middle, deep brown at the sides, 
with traces of two median darker lines, covered sparsely with 
narrow-curved grey scales. Abdomen black, with brown and 
dull golden hairs. 
Legs deep brown, apices of all the joints, except the last. 
tarsal, with minute yellow bands, most indistinct on the fore legs, 
most pronounced on the hind. 
Wings (Fig. 16, 8) with the costa with six small creamy spots, 
separated by jet black areas, of which the second and third are 
the largest ; the first spreads evenly on to the first long vein, the 
second is broken in the middle, but is the same length as that on 
the costa, the third continues on to the first long vein, but is. 
broken at its basal end, the fourth spreads evenly on to the vein, 
the two small basal black spots are not continued on to the first. 
vein ; there is a black fringe spot at the apex of the wing between 
the two branches. of the first sub-marginal cell; the second 
long vein is all black scaled, except for a small creamy spot on 
its lower branch, one at the base of the fork-cell and another 
small one on its stem; the third long vein is broadly white in 
the middle, with a black spot at each end; the fourth is also 
mostly black scaled, but has a yellow patch on each branch of 
