38 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. IV, 



9. 1907. Grassi : Mem. d. Soc. ital. d. Sci. (iii), xiv, p. 353. 



[P. papatasi fully redescribed with 



many figures.] 

 10. 1908. Grassi : Ati. Reale Accad. Lincei (v), vol. xvii, fasc. 12, 



2nd senustre, p. 68. \P. mascittii 



described.] 

 IT. 1908. Annandale: Rcc. Ind. Mus., vol, ii, p. loi. [P. 



argentipes described.] 



12. 1909. Doerr, Franz and Taussig: Das Pappatacifieher (Leip- 



zig and Vienna). 



13. 1909. Austen: African Bloodsucking Flies, pi. i, fig. 4 



(B. M., London). [P. duhoscqui 

 figured.] 



14. 1909. Annandale: Nature, vol. 81, p. 518. [P. papatasi 



recorded from India.] 



15. 1909. Meijere : " Blutsaugende Micro-Dipteren," Tijd. voor 



Entom., vol. Hi, p. 191. [P. pertur- 

 batis and P. angustipennis {synonym 

 of P. papatasi ?) described.] 



TAXONOMIC POSITION OF PHLEBOTOMUS 

 AND ITS SPECIES. 



FAMILY PSYCHODID^.. 



Small Nemocera with relatively large wings, which are 

 densely covered with scales or hairs. At least six longitudinal 

 veins present in addition to the costal (anterior border) and sub- 

 costal ; cross-veins few in number, often practically invisible, 

 absent from the distal part of the wing. 



Subfamily Phlebotominae. 



Psychodidse in which the second longitudinal vein has either 

 two or three branches, which arise at a considerable distance from 

 the point at which the main branch of the vein is joined to the 

 third longitudinal vein. Female devoid of a horny ovipositor ; the 

 external genitalia of the male consisting of at least three pairs of 

 appendages in addition to an intromittent organ. Genera — Phle- 

 hotomus * N emopalpus , Sycorax , Trichomyia, Eatonisca, Diplonema.* 



Subfamily Psychodinae. 



Psychodidae in which the lowest of the three branches of the 

 second longitudinal vein always present is very distinct from the 

 two up])er ones, and joins the middle branch at a point nearer the 

 base of the wing than the apex. Females with a horny ovipositor 

 consisting of two longitudinal valves ; external genitalia of the 

 male consisting of two pairs of appendages. Genera — Psychoda,* 

 Pericoma.* 



The genera whose names are marked with a * are known to 

 occur in India, They may be distinguished as follows : — 



