igio,] N. ANNANDAI.E : species of Phlebotomus. 47 



This species is closely allied to P. argentipes, from which it is 

 easil}' distinguished by its larger size, uniform golden colour, more 

 elongate tarsi and male genitalia. 



Distribution. — Outer Himalayas from the base up to 7,000 

 or 8,000 feet. Paresnath Hill, Western Bengal. I have examined 

 specimens from Naini Tal and Bowali (Kumaon), Kurseong (Dar- 

 jiling district), the Nepal Terai, and Paresnath Hill (Chota Nag- 

 pur). The fauna of this hill, which is separated by about 180 

 miles from the foot-hills of Nepal, the nearest part of the Hima- 

 layas, has a distinctly Himalayan facies, and I think that P. 

 major may be regarded as the Himalayan representative of P. 

 argentipes. All the specimens of the former species that I have 

 taken m^'self have been taken at light in the evening. The only 

 one I saw on Paresnath (a male) was taken at an altitude of 

 4,300 feet in April. The species appears to be common at Naini 

 Tal and Kurseong and probably also at Simla in May and June. 

 Dr. A. D. Imms took specimens at Bowali in July. 



Phlebotomus pertiirbans, Meijere. (PI. v, fig. 3, wing, and pi. vi, 

 figs. 5, 5^7, 56, male genitalia.) 



P. perturbans, Meijere^ Tijdschr. v. Ent., vol. lii, p. 201, pi. 12, 



fig. 13 (1909). 



Size and proportions. — Total length 2*5-3 mm. Length of wing 

 3'25 mm.; greatest breadth of wing 0*7 mm. Hind leg 2|^ times 

 as long as head and thorax ; the femur a little more than half as 

 long as the tibia, slightly longer than the first joint of the tarsus, 

 which is distinctly shorter than the other joints together. 



Colour. — Thorax, abdomen, femora, tibise, tarsi and antennae 

 brown, with the usual silvery lights; head (including palpi and 

 proboscis), coxae and trochanters 3^ellowish ; eyes black. 



Head. — Rostrum short and thick, rounded at the tip. An- 

 tennae with the basal joint of the flagellum not much longer than the 

 second ; the second joint of the scape bearing a circle of curved 

 scales. Palpi long, with five joints; the fifth joint the longest ; the 

 second and third much longer than the fourth; the first very short. 



Thorax much as in P. argentipes, except that the hairs are 

 shorter. 



Abdomen relatively shorter than in P. major, clothed with 

 recumbent hairs and with a few upright curved ones on l)oth the 

 dorsal and the ventral surfaces. 



Wing bluntly pointed, with the posterior border not much 

 more strongly arched than the anterior. The length of the 

 anterior branch of the second longitudinal vein, the distance 

 between the two forks of this vein and that between the posterior 

 fork and the mid cross-vein subequal ; the fork of the fourth 

 longitudinal distinctly nearer the tip of the wing than the pos- 

 terior fork of the second longitudinal. 



Genitalia. — ( 9 ) The su])erior appendage considerably larger 

 than the inferior, l)()th leaf-like and rounded at the tip. 



